Re^2: Perl has plenty of XML parsers, but is there an XML printer?

This isn't going to be used in a web environment, so I don't think that there will be a need for a solution like a XSLT stylesheet.

All that's going to be done is data retrieval and comparison via flat files (don't have access to a DB).

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Re^3: Perl has plenty of XML parsers, but is there an XML printer? by jZed (Prior) on Jul 19, 2007 at 23:40 UTC
Getting access to a db like SQLite or MySQL or PostgreSQL isn't that hard. But if you really want to compare flat files and XML files in a database-like manner without a database, then DBD::AnyData sounds like what you want. It handles many kinds of flat files (CSV, Fixed-width, ini, etc.) and uses XML::Twig to both read and write XML files using the standard DBI interface.	[reply]
Re^4: Perl has plenty of XML parsers, but is there an XML printer? by yaneurabeya (Novice) on Jul 20, 2007 at 00:14 UTC
I completely forgot about SQLite, and it's in my work's Perl dist! Nevermind XML, I'm going to use that :)..	[reply]
Re^5: Perl has plenty of XML parsers, but is there an XML printer? by jZed (Prior) on Jul 20, 2007 at 00:22 UTC
perl -MDBD::SQLite -e "print $DBD::SQLite::VERSION" will tell you if it's installed (note: DBD::, not DBI::). It's also dead simple to install if not there. You might want to check into DBD::AnyData regardless, since it makes it easy to get XML into and out of SQLite.	[reply]
Re^6: Perl has plenty of XML parsers, but is there an XML printer? by yaneurabeya (Novice) on Jul 20, 2007 at 00:31 UTC
Re^3: Perl has plenty of XML parsers, but is there an XML printer? by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 19, 2007 at 23:31 UTC
For a quick and easy database take a look at DBD::SQLite and DBI - that's the whole ball o' wax. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]