XML::XQL might be your hammer but we are not dealing with nails here!

XML::XQL is based on XML::DOM as you said, which means that it eats up RAM like there's no tomorrow, about 10 times the original size of the XML data (which is already much more than CSV for example). XML::Grove does not seem to be very well supported from comments to the review and from the fact that the last release is dated September 9th 1999, and is slow as a dog in any case. XML::miniXQL is not exactly supported either, the last version was released June 16th 1999.

While you might like XML::XQL it is certainly not the ultimate in terms of data munging.

Sorry for the plug but you might want to have a look at Processing XML with Perl or Ways to Rome to see a couple of comparisons of various XML modules along with benchmarks.

In this case a data base solution seems like the only way to go (and I am as much of an XML evangelist as you might find around here ;--)

In reply to Re: Re: Data. Lots of Data. by mirod
in thread Data. Lots of Data. by Anonymous Monk

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