What I'm trying to get to is - I'm feeling like I'm banging on saying "Just don't use XML::Simple, there are no good reasons to" and I'm after counter examples. Niches where it isn't just plain worse.

You need to ask more noobs

:) new things are scary, only noobs can come up with examples, because they like trying to write {foo}{bar} (but can't debug it)

{foo}{bar} is better documented and more accessible to noobs than the others

twig has too much documentation :D

libxml docs don't teach you xpath or trees/dom or ...perlintro

so they think "xml hash" and go searching .... after half hour of frustration they stumble upon XML::Simple

Its why I try to give libxml examples often ... its 98% copy/paste

Its also why I link threads where libxml/rules/simple/twig solutions are present....

but even with all that compare/contrast, noobs like to inch through xml/hashes while simultaneously trying to learn perlintro

they need handholding

I used to :D

In reply to Re^3: Examples where XML::Simple is the optimal choice? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Examples where XML::Simple is the optimal choice? by Preceptor

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