You picked the wrong tool...

I would not make that sort of blanket assertion. Note that XML::Simple is actually a layer on top of XML::Parser -- and the man page for XML::Simple is (paradoxically) much longer and more complicated than the one for XML::Parser.

From my perspective, XML::Simple applies a lot of "default" (or maybe even inescapable) assumptions about what you intend to do with XML data, and if what you really want to do is a different from that... well, it might not be so "Simple".

Lots of good work can be done with XML::Parser, and it's not that hard to master. Maybe it's "the worst XML parsing interface on CPAN" for your purposes, but I'm sure there are many who find it both useful and appropriate for a variety of jobs.

In reply to Re^2: XML Parsing by graff
in thread XML Parsing by saaz11

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