Trying to avoid installing extra modules will most likely just cause you pain downstream. For example, I wouldn't recommend using the SAX PurePerl parser if your target Perl version is earlier than 5.8 since you won't have any encoding support.

Possibly the easiest 'real' SAX parser to get going is XML::SAX::Expat. It uses XML::Parser which comes standard with ActivePerl on Win32, Linux and Solaris (+possibly HPUX?). For non-ActivePerl systems, most Linux distributions come with the expat library and it's easy to build on other Unixes so installing XML::Parser is usually no problem (as long as a compiler is installed).

In reply to Re: XML::SAX::PurePerl experience by grantm
in thread XML::SAX::PurePerl experience by Anonymous Monk

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