you can review answers to a recent poll by me.
You can also find many usefull info in my homenode(it is a mess..):

XML "If you need to deal with XML, first, we’re very sorry." b d foy http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2011/07/rewrite-xml-with-xmltwig/ and http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2010/03/process-xml-data-with-xmltwig/ and http://it-is-etc.blogspot.it/2012/07/perl-how-to-manipulate-xml-files-using.html and http://perlmeme.org/tutorials/parsing_xml.html speed comparison http://www.robinclarke.net/archives/xml-parsing-with-perl mirod schratchpad and Re: Another simple XML Twig question and http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/03/21/xmltwig.html ambrus's Do not reinvent the wheel: real-world example using XML::Twig and also http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/faq/ and choroba about XML

There are many different options about modules to use to parse XML: do not choose XML::Simple. I chosed XML::Twig and i'm very happy with this.

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Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to Re: XML parsing by Discipulus
in thread XML parsing by mading0

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