so the inplace options are valid only during the scope of the parse_inplace call?

UTSL :) its

select temp handle;
parsefile;
restore original handle;
rename /backup;
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So it can be used only with the on-the-fly processing style and not with the tree-processing one?

That is tree mode. If you change the flush to a print, you'll see lots and lots of duplicated output.

but i prefer to use the XML::Twig method for shortness and laziness.

short/lazy things are supposed to be easy/obvious to use, I think this one got kind of got away from mirod, but its not like I have better ideas, I mean come on :)

  $twig->infile('file.xml')
       ->backup('.bak')
       ->tempout
       ->parseit
       ->replaceoriginalwithtemp
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