Question

Some Perl code that I’m looking at is returning xml data from a method call. How do I view this xml data?

Code:

print "$xml";

What I get:

XML::XPath=HASH(0xa408dbc)

What I want:
Actual xml contents, i.e:

<sometag>
  <sometag2/>
</sometag>

Answer 1

I believe that you want one of

print $xml->find('/')->string_value;
print $xml->findnodes_as_string('/');

That is, find the root (‘/‘) node of your XPath object, and print it out as a string.