set_attrib not working

Hi All,

I am trying to update an attribute in one of the xml files, using the set_attrib function of the TeamSite::XMLNode perl module. The code is as below.

$x = $node->set_attrib(title=>'munish', description=>'munish');
print "$x \n";
$x = $node->get_attrib('title');
print "$x \n";

# the output for this is munish however when I go and see the xml file, the attribute is still set to its #previous value

This works fine for the time as when I do a get_attrib within the same script. The value set by the script are returned, however once the script finishes execution, the attributes are not set in the XML file. Am I missing something here?

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nipper

I assume you are rewriting the XML back to the file somewhere else

moonkhanna

I assume you are rewriting the XML back to the file somewhere else

Hi Andy,

Thanks for looking into this one. These are the last statements of my complete code..I am confused, whats happening.. I was thinking that we have close the XML somewhere..

nipper

XMLNode parses an xml string. In memory.

So this is all in memory, you need to write this back to disk

moonkhanna

XMLNode parses an xml string. In memory.

So this is all in memory, you need to write this back to disk

Andy, thanks! thats something I was missing. Can you give an example on how to write this back.. Do I just do a get_xml and then open the respective file and write back to it?

nipper

Andy, thanks! thats something I was missing. Can you give an example on how to write this back.. Do I just do a get_xml and then open the respective file and write back to it?

That *should* be what you need to do, but I have not tried that. I would make the change and print out the result of get_xml. If that looks correct, then dump it to a file

moonkhanna

Andy, that did the trick! Thanks! Smiley Happy