I've tried quite a few modules for parsing RSS feeds.
XML::Simple
XML::RSS
XML::RSS::Parser
XML::RSS::Parser::Lite
XML::RSS::Feed
XML::RSSLite
All of these do the job, but IIRC XML::RSS::Parser::Lite is the only one that does not use XML::Parser which requires C compiler to install it if it's not installed already.

In the end I chose XML::RSSLite becaue it had the smallest memory footprint for the data I was using, which was critical for me, it may not be for you.