I'm not sure what XML::Rules is using under the hood, but how do you know XML::SAX is using XML::SAX::ExpatXS? It might be using the PurePerl Parser, and so would be extremely slow. The alternative to XML::Parser (which uses expat) is XML::LibXML (which uses libxml) at the low level. Everything else is just wrappers around those, and bound to be 'slower', but possibly easier to use for your specific problem.

Update: XML::Rules uses XML::Parser::Expat...but since it's a wrapper around Expat, it would be slower than the XML::Parser::Expat module alone...but faster/slower would not be the point of using XML::Rules over XML::Parser::Expat in the first place.

When I ran your XML::SAX code, it used XML::LibXML (via XML::LibXML::SAX) under the hood, but then, I have XML::LibXML installed, and ParserDetails.ini is set to use it.

In reply to Re: Which XML parser would be the wisest to use by runrig
in thread Which XML parser would be the wisest to use by wardy3

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