knoebi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings fellow monks, I searched today for an alternative for XML::Simple and found many resources how to use Perl and XML together, and finally tried XML::LibXML. But it lacks documentation, or I couldn't find it.
After that I found XML::SimpleObject::LibXML on CPAN and it looks very promising to me. Uses LibXML, a nice interface including XPath, so i tried it and it worked fine so far.
Because I have to decide in the next days to use this Module in productive enviroment or not and because SuperSearch didn't return any results for this module, I would be very interested if somebody here already usees this Module? Probably somebody use it already together with mod_perl?
Thank you for your time reading this post and specially for sharing your experience with me. knoebi
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Re: Does anybody have expierence with XML::SimpleObject::LibXML?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 07, 2004 at 21:25 UTC

    I've been migrating (slowly) the XML processing within Everything from XML::DOM to XML::SimpleObject::LibXML and like the latter quite a bit.

    Converting the XML to node processor was very easy and the code is cleaner and faster now.

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Re: Does anybody have expierence with XML::SimpleObject::LibXML?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 08, 2004 at 01:21 UTC

    I hadn't seen the SimpleObject variety so far, but I've used the underlying XML::LibXML wrapper quite a bit (in production, too). I am completely enamoured. It just works, it's very robust, easy on memory (much easier than any XML::Parser based modules), and lightning fast.

    Plus, the libxml2 library it's based on has received lots of praise all around. It's known to often be the fastest choice; the accompanying libxslt2 is known as one of the most conformant XSLT processors.

    I'd call libxml2 a pretty safe option to bet on.

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      Add to this the fact that libxml2 / libxslt are used by GNOME which give them many, many hours on every GNOME desktop for bug reporting, and you have a very wise choice.

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Re: Does anybody have expierence with XML::SimpleObject::LibXML?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Sep 08, 2004 at 05:32 UTC
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      Hi PodMaster,

      yes, I heard of perldoc.
      And yes, I allready looked at the links you supplied, but it didn't help me any further. Its quit complicated and there is no overview. Also looked at the Documentation for the C-API. In the end I looked at the code.
      Oh, of course I also looked at the tutorials, did you find anything about XML::LibXML there?
      I already mentioned in my first post that I used SuperSearch
      ciao
      knoebi
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        And yes, I allready looked at the links you supplied, but it didn't help me any further. ...
        That is quite different from what you originally said (But it lacks documentation, or I couldn't find it.). It may be "complicated", but the documentation is there. It exists and its comprehensive.
         
        Oh, of course I also looked at the tutorials, did you find anything about XML::LibXML there?
        I didn't look. You said you couldn't find documentation, i pointed you to a tutorial on that. You super searched, and that's good. How to RTFM teaches never doubt the power of search engines, particularly Google's. And as I'm a believer, I google'd for XML::LibXML tutorial and two good ones I hope those are easy enough to digest.

        MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
        I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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