in reply to XML parser

to be precise; you are seeking a perl module which uses an underlying XML parser (this is usually something like expat).

as with anything, depends on what you want to do.... are you massaging data ? or are you interpreting an XML file and want to 'do' something ; if the later then you may want to use a streaming parser e.g. XML::LibXML.

Personally, I find XML::STX to be quite interesting http://www.gingerall.org/stx.html

As for converting XML to HTML, this is a different problem;

You might find using XML::LibXSLT is all you will ever need .... at the other end of the scale ... you could probably just use HTML Tidy to convert.

If you are massaging a lot of data and working in web domain, XSLT is a good route to go down.

here are some rather old links to perl and XML;

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/04/05/feature/index.html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/04/18/perlxmlqstart1.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/07/09/perlandxml.html


hth, Jim Fuller

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Re^2: XML parser
by hakana (Acolyte) on Nov 29, 2007 at 09:10 UTC
    The long description is that I'm making a test system. The xml file is used for both configuration and saving the results in.
    The first part is that a WEB-GUI is saving witch tests to run. 
    <exec>
   <tc id=001></tc>
   <tc id=002></tc>
</exec>

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    Second will the testframework append testinfo to the different nodes and add childs to the nodes. 
    <exec>
   <tc id=001 desc=first test>
      <ts id=001.001 result=passed/>
   </tc>
   <tc id=002 desc=second test>
      <ts id=002.001 result=failed/>
   </tc>
</exec>

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    So the testframework has to be able to find the specific node by using the id and append info/data and child to that node.
    Does anyone have any suggestions how to do this?
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      Do you want the output file to have the same order of XML tags as the input file?

      I built an automated test equipment (ATE) configuration and test system using XML::Simple, but I didn't like it because it changed the order of the XML tags between the input and the output. I switched from XML::Simple to XML::Twig and solved this problem.

      After doing this, I thought that maybe XML is not so great for this type of application. I wanted human-readable files that were also easy to parse with a computer. I also wanted to add tags in the future without breaking old files. XML seemed like the right choice but it was not so easy to achieve these goals. Recently I have tried YAML with the same goals, but this has not been so great, either. I am still looking for a better solution.

      Now I think I should use something like YAML, but I should write my own parser.

      It should work perfectly the first time! - toma
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