Actually, looks like XML::Simple is not shorter.

Of course it is. my $xml = XMLin( ... ); No one but you would bother to wrap it up in all that unnecessary verbiage.

It's just slower and more fragile.

I wonder. How much less time than 0.2 seconds (0.4 if we include the time taken to load perl and the libraries) does LibXML take?

And given this is being read back from a website, will it make a Gnat's cock of difference? 

c:\test>timeit \perl64\bin\perl.exe junk4.pl
Took 0.168277 seconds
{
  ano => 22222222,
  cn => "1111222233334444555",
  custid => 101010101,
  description => "Transfer Completed",
  kf => {},
  neta => "7.00",
  prid => "X111111111111111",
  responsecode => 11,
  status => "success",
  trxid => 33333333,
}

Took: 0.381164000 seconds

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After XML::Simple, there's only one other XML::* module worth considering. XML::Twig. Because it's the only one that will deal effectively with bigger than memory XML files.

And before you respond, realise that any sentence that start with "If...", doesn't mean damn thing.

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In reply to Re^2: parsing a simple xml response by BrowserUk
in thread parsing a simple xml response by Anonymous Monk

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