Hi vagabonding electron,

The syntax was not very verbose either on the second look :-)

This is of course just my personal opinion and not a good reason to not use the module, but its method naming just bugged me... when I'm writing Java I don't mind reallyLongMethodNamesThatDocumentEverythingTheMethodDoes (that's what autocomplete is for), but when writing Perl I prefer Perlish APIs. Some examples: the method "characters" could be named "text" (and accept multiple arguments), "startTag" could be named "start", or s/dataElement/tag/. It might seem minor but when I tried it out I just found myself typing "startTag" too often and my code actually got longer using this "helper" module. But anyways, that's just my two cents, if it works for you then don't let me stop you :-)

Regards,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re^3: Creating a xml file in chunks by haukex
in thread Creating a xml file in chunks by vagabonding electron

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