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Handling XML in Perl example from a Well House Consultants training course
More on Handling XML in Perl [link]

This example is described in the following article(s):
• Handling XML in Perl - introduction and early examples - [link]

Source code: index.xml Module: P668

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<title>Wiltshire / Melksham Weddings - guest accommodation</title>
<description>Let's face it - it's the big day for
the bride, and the last thing she wants to be worried about
it where her more geographically distant friends and relatives
will stay, whether they can get into their hotel rooms...</description>
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<title>Long job - progress bar techniques (Perl)</title>
<description>Here's a "Perl for Larger Projects"
example --- for use in illustrating the "advanced file and
directory handling" and "handling huge data set"
modules. Scenario ... I want to go through all the files and
directories on a big drive,...</description>
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<title>Designing your data structures for a robust Perl application</title>
<description>Whatever language you're programming in, design
of your data structures is important. You should consider such
design ahead of time, and before you start to code - "What
am I going to be doing with this data" and "how
do...</description>
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<title>Lead characters on Perl variable names</title>
<description>Perl variable names mostly start with a special
character: $ for a scalar variable - that's a variable that
can hold an integer, a float, a string, a reference, or a compiled
regular expression (that last not being terribly
common)....</description>
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<title>Translation from Ghanaian to English</title>
<description>In response to an email I have just received ... which
shouts the subject line DO NOT IGNORE at me ... I'm not ignoring
but providing you with a translation! Hello Hello Pardon me for
not having the pleasure of...</description>
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<title>Public Transport from (and to) Melksham on Sundays</title>
<description>I walked into the Town Centre in Melksham at around
9 O'clock this morning - a bright sunny morning and it was
(as you would expect) quietish, but it certainly wasn't
deadly quiet. A young gentlemen approach me, asking me...</description>
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<title>Quiet summer days? I think not!</title>
<description>I was amused at the co-incidence ... to see that
one of our most downloaded images in the last 24 hours has been
this one, taken st least three years ago at the rear of "
404". It's a co-incidence because...</description>
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<title>C++, Python, and other training - do we use an IDE</title>
<description>A question from my inbox ... "Do you use
Visual Studio, or a similar IDE". And worth a full answer,
and one to be shared. An IDE or Integrated Development Environment
is a piece of software that provides the programmer...</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>Using a cache for efficiency. Python and PHP examples</title>
<description>Ask yourself "how long is it (in seconds) from
5.36 a.m. and 20 seconds to 6.04 a.m. and 39 seconds".
Have you worked that out? Now - how long is it (in seconds)
from 5.36 a.m. and 20 seconds to...</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
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<item>
<title>Python - fresh examples of all the fundamentals</title>
<description>Some more new examples in Python - from this
week's course. From my Introduction to Python / simple
example to show the power of the language, I present my example
that parsed a big data (log) file and counter and...</description>
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<title>Learning to program - how to jump the first hurdles</title>
<description>From last Sunday ... here are links to the examples
of code that I wrote in front of the "Learning to Program
in Python" delegates - to show them not only how a program
works, but also how I (and...</description>
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<title>At the end of the course</title>
<description> Already, the days are getting shorter. At the end
of the Python Course, I walked along the canal with one of our
delegates who - wisely - decided to stop an extra night and drive
home to East Yorkshire...</description>
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<title>Counting Words in Python via the web</title>
<description>I love writing things in Python - it's a great
language for achieving a great deal in a short time. And it works
well got Simple CGI scripts. Today's challenge - to count
the number of words (and number of...</description>
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<title>Getting it right from the start - new programmers</title>
<description>From yesterday's "Learning to Program in
Python" - an example of splitting your program into manageable
chunks, which is SO IMPORTANT with regard to testing and ongoing
maintenance that we introduce the subject even on that first
day, with some...</description>
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<title>Alpaca Case or Camel Case</title>
<description> A very first practical program on our Learning to
Program in Python course that started today. Even at this early
stage, we teach things like good practise in variable naming -
standards such as using a consistent case (e.g....</description>
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