Extracting data from an XML document that uses namespaces

Question

I have some XML files where I want to use some information from them. I have written a code that reads those files and then looks for some conditions.

The problem is

Answer 1

Perl has so many excellent XML tools - thanks to all the module developers and libxml2, XML almost seems easy. One of those tools is XML::Dataset - a convenience "scaffolding" module that builds on XML::LibXML and uses a "profile" markup language to grab data from XML sources (NB: The profile mark-up is sensitive to whitespace and line endings).

e.g.:

use XML::Dataset;
use DDP;

my $xml = "Squish.xml" ; 
open my $fh, "<", $xml or die "aiiieee!";
my $test_data = do { local $/; <$fh> };

# describe the data using XML::Dataset simplified markup:
my $data_profile
    = q(
          SquishReport
            test
              test
                 name = dataset:name);

# parse it with XML::Dataset profile
my $parsed_data = parse_using_profile($test_data, $data_profile);

# view the element with Data::Printer
foreach my $element ( $parsed_data->{name}){
     p $element ;
};

Squish.xml:

   
      
      
          
          
              
                >  >>  >> start: init (global) - testcase C:\squish\test\tst_start_app]]>
          
       
   

Output:

\ [
    [0] {
        name   "tst_start_app"
    }
]