count the number of nodes in an XML document with Perl

[crmpicco]

Is there a way in Perl to count the number of employee nodes in an XML document?

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<staff>
<employee>
... other nodes in here ...
</employee>
<employee>
... other nodes in here ...
</employee>
<employee>
... other nodes in here ...
</employee>
<employee>
... other nodes in here ...
</employee>
<employee>
... other nodes in here ...
</employee>
</staff>

[KevinADC]

have you looked into using any of the XML modules? XML::Parser, XML::DOM, XML::Simple, etc?

[FishMonger]

Your prior related questions used XML::Simple.
use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::Simple;

my $xml = XMLin('employees.xml');
my $count = @{$xml->{employee}};

print "We have $count employees\n";

[crmpicco]

thanks, worked a treat

[arunprakash647]

if we have sub nodes for employees........how do v count the sub nodes????????