1. Using XML::LibXML and XPath means you have to load the whole document into memory as a huge maze of interconnected objects. Good luck doing that with a file that actually is big. Not that it would not be a huge waste of resources even if you are able to fit it in memory.
  2. XPath is just another language to write a (part of a) program with. As soon as you are writing XPath, you are programming so the blurb about not having to write a program is nonsense. Yeah, you do not write it in Perl and use instead XPath combined with whatever expression and scripting language your spreadsheet provides. Big difference.

Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

In reply to Re^2: XML data extraction by Jenda
in thread XML data extraction by snehit.ar

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