Re: Re: XML::parser question

It's important to note that XML::Simple has been ported to the XML::SAX API (as XML::SAX::Simple). This means you can get the ease of use of XML::Simple with the benefits of XML::SAX. One of the chief benefits is that you can use other parsers besides expat (the parser XML::Parser uses). expat is notoriously inefficient as an XML parser. libxml2 (the C library at the core of XML::LibXML) is much faster, and has already been ported to the XML::SAX API. So if you used XML::LibXML as your parsing library and XML::SAX::Simple as your parser, you could get a very fast, very easy solution to this problem.

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Re: Re: Re: XML::parser question by grantm (Parson) on Oct 24, 2002 at 20:10 UTC
Actually, you don't need XML::SAX::Simple - matts put that quick hack together while I was integrating SAX support directly into XML::Simple. Version 1.08_01 of XML::Simple supports SAX natively. It can act as a handler in the way you suggest, it can also drive a SAX pipeline from a Perl data structure and it can do both at the same time for filtering.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: XML::parser question by Hrunting (Pilgrim) on Oct 25, 2002 at 12:00 UTC
Ahh, that's great. Release it on CPAN so the rest of the world can view it. All I see is 1.08.	[reply]
Beta packages on CPAN (was Re*5: XML::parser question) by grantm (Parson) on Oct 26, 2002 at 18:16 UTC
Release it on CPAN so the rest of the world can view it. XML::Simple version 1.08_01 has been on CPAN since February. The CPAN shell recognises a _nn suffix to mean that a release is an 'unstable' version (thanks to samtregar for pointing this feature out to me). If you type this command in the CPAN shell ... `cpan> install XML::Simple` [download] ... then you'll get the latest stable version (without an underscore suffix). However you can install a specific version like this ... `cpan> install G/GR/GRANTM/XML-Simple-1.08_01.tar.gz` [download] And you can list available versions with the 'author' command ... `cpan> a GRANTM` [download] The 1.08_01 release has proven to be so stable that I haven't had a pressing need to re-release it with a new version number. I will though.	[reply] [d/l] [select]