For the Perl 5 project, the "standard distribution" is the "Core" distribution. As toolic pointed out, the Core does not include any XML modules.

However, there are also packages that may include additional modules beyond what is in the Core. For example, the Perl package for Debian Linux includes modules needed by the Debian Linux distribution. For MS Windows, StrawberryPerl.com and Active Perl both have whatever extra modules their respective package maintainers thought would be useful to include. Exactly which extra modules may change from one package release to the next.

Why do you want to not to install modules from CPAN?

Update: Changed domain of StrawberryPerl (it's .com not .org).

In reply to Re^3: best XML parser in 5.18 by RonW
in thread best XML parser in 5.18 by fionbarr

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