Or *maybe* not. I'm not sure. The link you give says it's *alpha* quality, and I wouldn't use alpha quality stuff:

XML::Dumper : Perl module for dumping Perl objects from/to XML [ docum
+entation ]Contained in the XML-Dumper-0.4 distribution 
 Download / quickinstall XML-Dumper-0.4.tar.gz 
 Size: 4.732 kB  Last modified: Jun 20, 1999 

CPAN id: E/EI/EISEN 

Version: 0.4 DSLI (development, support, language, interface) informat
+ion: 
 Development: Alpha testing 
 Support: Mailing-list 
 Language: Perl only, no compiler needed, should be platform independe
+nt 
 Interface: Object oriented using blessed references and/or inheritanc
+e
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Ok, that argument didn't sound too strong in my opinion, so I did some testing:

F:\dev\>perl -MXML::Dumper -e"print XML::Dumper->new()->pl2xml({ {a,bl
+ess
{}, 'Foo'},{1,[1,2,3]}})"
<perldata>
 <hash>
  <item key="HASH(0x17655c4)">
   <hash>
    <item key="1">
     <array>
      <item key="0">1</item>
      <item key="1">2</item>
      <item key="2">3</item>
     </array>
    </item>
   </hash>
  </item>
 </hash>
</perldata>

F:\dev\>perl -MData::DumpXML=dump_xml -e"print dump_xml({ {a,bless {},
+ 'Fo
o'},{1,[1,2,3]}})"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<!DOCTYPE data SYSTEM "dumpxml.dtd">
<data>
 <ref>
  <hash>
   <key>HASH(0x17655a8)</key>
    <ref>
     <hash>
      <key>1</key>
       <ref>
        <array>
         <str>1</str>
         <str>2</str>
         <str>3</str></array></ref>
     </hash></ref>
  </hash></ref></data>

F:\dev\>
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So my conclusion is that XML::Dumper just dumps a bunch of xml (no DTD), and Data::DumpXML has a somewhat retarded interface (has one function, doesn't export it by default). Data::DumpXML includes Data::DumpXML::Parser for reading back the values, while XML::Dumper does it both. Either look good, although I would opt for Data::DumpXML, simply because of the DTD (and also because Giselle Ans *is* maintaining it). However, I would patch both of them to use, non oo interfaces. They would both export two functions: Dumper, and Thumper (or Undumper, Dumperun, Dumpun, punDump,...)

 

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