TeamSite::XMLnode

kellyrmilligan

I am using a perl script to take values out of a batch of DCR's and put them into a new format of dcr's. I have all the value's populated, and am setting the EA's properly to create the new dcr's. When I open the file up via the templating web interface, it looks fine. but when I physically open the file up, some of the reserved xml characters are still there. for example, for a content block, inside of the xml tags, might be something like this:

<p>this is a piece of content</p>

I grab that value, and put it into my new document.

the hex values should be something like this

&lt;p&gt;this is a piece of content&lt;/p&gt;

but I get this:

&lt;p>this is a piece of content&lt;/p>

This seems to only be doing part of the hex stuff. any ideas?

Here is the code previous to this to get the values:

$xml = "";
if (open(DCR, "<$dcrlocation"))
{ local $/;
$xml = <DCR>;
close(DCR);
}else
{
logthis "could not open $dcrlocation";
}

$rootnode = TeamSite::XMLnode->new($xml);
my $author = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('contributor.author');
my $contDate = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('contributor.contDate');
my $effDate = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('contributor.effDate');
my $revDate = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('contributor.revDate');
my $endDate = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('contributor.endDate');
my $State0 = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('contributor.State[0]');
my $State1 = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('contributor.State[1]');
my $State2 = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('contributor.State[2]');
my $keywords = $rootnode->get_inner_xml('policy_metadata.keywords');


This is including several different data fields. I was using DCRNode before this with the same get inner xml fucntion, and got the same results.

Adam Stoller

I believe it's doing the least it needs to do - i.e. as long as you convert the open-angle-bracket, you would have embedded tags, and XML parsers will be happy.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com