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  • Perl and XML (Score:5, Insightful)

    by ziggy (25)
    Your assertion does not accurately summarize my experiences with Perl and XML.

    First, lots of Perl programmers have embraced XML. There was a period of time when the only module for parsing xml was XML::Parser and a few half-finished attempts at doing something differently. Today, there are many polished alternatives for processing XML, including the interchangeable PerlSAX framework which mimics SAX in Java. In fact, some ideas crop up first in Perl (or rather in Barrie Slaymaker's head) before they ar

    • I agree with your points in general. Maybe it's just me (chorus: IT"S JUST YOU!) but I find XML painful to work with, generally. Most of the XML "solutions" don't feel, well, Perl-y to me.

      I have come up with something that does - it's reasonably fast, rapid to code, and it works, plus it keeps most of the dependencies on what the XML is like outside the program itself: Text::Template to generate XML I need to give someone else, and XML::XPath to extract data from XML they've given to me. I was thinking about proposing an OSCON session on "outside-the-box XML programming in Perl" or something like that; dunno if anyone would be interested, though.
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