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Journal of jk2addict (4946)

Friday December 21, 2007

09:46 AM

JSON::Cowbell

[ #35181 ]

I truly believe that the amount of modules on CPAN is an asset to Perl %99.9999 of the time. Why not %100? Here's a list for starters:

JSON 1.x
JSON 2.x (using...)
JSON::XS
JSON::Syck
JSON::Any
YAML
YAML::XS
YAML::Syck

THose are just the big ones, not even counting JSON::PC and JSON::DWIW, etc.

Clearly, we need an YAML::Any.

And don't get me started on XML.

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Get you started? (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147)

XML? What’s there to say about XML? For stream processing of ginormous documents you use XML::Twig, all else is the domain of XML::LibXML. There isn’t anything else. Is there anything else?
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  by jk2addict (4946)
  
  XML::Simple
  XML::Parser
  
  Yes, all not as bad as the number of 'one true' JSON/YAML parsers atm.
  - Re: (Score:1)
    
    by Aristotle (5147)
    
    I won’t go near either of those. XML::Simple is a neat idea on paper that kinda sorta works as long as documents are utterly trivial but scales terribly, so I won’t touch with a 10′ pole. XML::Parser does nothing that XML::LibXML doesn’t do better, but lacks XPath support.
    
    It is as I said: there’s XML::Twig for 1 in 100 cases, and XML::LibXML for everything else.
    - Re: (Score:1)
      
      by jk2addict (4946)
      
      Being a long time win32 user back in the AxKit days, I have a stupendous hate-hate-kill relationship with LibXML. Getting that and mod_perl and Apache to play nicely was a painful experience.
      
      LibXML on win32 is a lot better than it used to be, and with any luck, it's inclusion into Strawberry Perl 5.10 will make that pain fade. :-)
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        by Aristotle (5147)
        
        Yes, Windows is an issue. And yes, I hope Strawberry fixes this for good.
Bruce Dickenson Rules! (Score:1)

by Stevan (6065)

I got a fever, and the only cure is ..
MORE JSON
sorry, it just had to be done