Who said LibXML is just a parser?

You, for one.

Yes, probably because it's too old for it.

I meant it can't support namespaces.

I'm not debating that Smart is missing critical functionality.

Neither was I. I was referring to what its design allows.

Are you kidding me?!?! That's a horrible mess!

Are you kidding me? The equivalent would be 

$sb->setAttribute(SourceDBType => 'XML') if !$sb->setAttribute('XML');

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Incorrect. Smart does both:

Sorry, but that's not working. 

use strict;
use warnings;
use feature qw( say );

use XML::Smart qw( );

my $doc = XML::Smart->new(<<'__EOI__');
<root>
   <node>
     a
     <foo/>
     b
     <bar/>
     c
  </node>
</root>
__EOI__

my @children = $doc->{root}{node}[0]('@');
say @children == 5 ? "ok" : "XXX";

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1
XXX

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In reply to Re^3: XML::LibXML - WHAR HASH TREES WHAR?! by ikegami
in thread XML::LibXML - WHAR HASH TREES WHAR?! by SineSwiper

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