Re: Seeking Pure Perl XML Parser

You can use either XML::Parser::Lite or XML::SAX::PurePerl, but be aware that they both have limitations. Neither of them does entity replacement for example (patches welcome ;--).

If you are using ActiveState build then XML::Parser is installed (PPM uses it), so you can use all of the Pure-Perl modules based on it: XML::Simple, XML::DOM, XML::Twig, XML::XPath...

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Re: Re: Seeking Pure Perl XML Parser by jaxon (Novice) on Sep 30, 2002 at 23:02 UTC
The project we are working on have to run on AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Linux, Widows, MacOX and potentially other Un*x platforms from the same Perl code (three chears for portable Perl!). So this means that I have to go with either modules that are common to all these platforms, or use modules that can be untared with the the project's Perl code. XML::Parser::Lite or XML::SAX::PurePerl meet these requirements, I'll find out soon whether they do the trick. Thanks! ;)	[reply]

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Re: Re: Seeking Pure Perl XML Parser
by jaxon (Novice) on Sep 30, 2002 at 23:02 UTC

So this means that I have to go with either modules that are common to all these platforms, or use modules that can be untared with the the project's Perl code.

XML::Parser::Lite or XML::SAX::PurePerl meet these requirements, I'll find out soon whether they do the trick.

Thanks! ;)

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