FWIW, I use XML::Xerces::DOMParser, and build things that way. I write wrapper classes for each broad category of XML tag I want to generate.

These classes have get/set methods which just manage some anon hashes in my class's instance data. I also have two methods - getXML and parseXML, which output the entire tree and snarf in a new tree, respectively.

getXML essentially converts my perl-friendly hash representation of the XML tree into a Xerces DOM, then returns the text representation. parseXML does the opposite - snarfs into a DOM and moves it into a nice perl hash. I've never used a DTD, so I'm not sure how far my idea would get you on that front. But as far as a way for "methods and stuff to do the tag work for you", I think it works okay.

Out of interest, how can a DTD help me? What does it bring to the table?

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In reply to Re: RFC : XML::Generator::FromDTD by hagus
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