<html><head><meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"></head><body><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;">use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::LibXML;
use IO::File;

# first instanciate the parser
my $parser = XML::LibXML-&gt;new();

# initialize the callbacks
$parser-&gt;match_callback( \&amp;match_uri );
$parser-&gt;read_callback( \&amp;read_uri );
$parser-&gt;open_callback( \&amp;open_uri );
$parser-&gt;close_callback( \&amp;close_uri );

# include XIncludes on the fly
$parser-&gt;expand_xinclude( 1 );

# parse the file "text.xml" in the current directory
my $dom = $parser-&gt;parse_file("test.xml");

print $dom-&gt;toString() , "\n";

# the callbacks follow
# these callbacks are used for both the original parse AND the XInclude
sub match_uri {
    my $uri = shift;
    return $uri !~ /:\/\// ? 1 : 0; # we handle only files
}

sub open_uri {
    my $uri = shift;

    my $handler = new IO::File;
    if ( not $handler-&gt;open( "&lt;$uri" ) ){
        $handler = 0;
    }

    return $handler;
}

sub read_uri {
    my $handler = shift;
    my $length  = shift;
    my $buffer = undef;
    if ( $handler ) {
        $handler-&gt;read( $buffer, $length );
    }
    return $buffer;
}

sub close_uri {
    my $handler = shift;
    if ( $handler ) {
        $handler-&gt;close();
    }
    return 1;
}

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