Re^2: XML for Dummies

Better yet: use Config::File, Config::General, Config::IniFile, Config::Tiny or Config::Any. IMHO it's never a good idea to roll your own config file parsing, when you have many CPAN modules to do the heavy lifting for you. With Config::Any you can even use XML config files if necessary.

[]s, HTH, Massa

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Re^3: XML for Dummies by tilly (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2008 at 14:09 UTC
You missed the requirement that the configuration be accessible in 2 different languages. A CPAN module will not help a bash script. As for configuration file parsing, I'm not a fan of anything that I've seen on CPAN yet. Admittedly I haven't looked in years, but I still hold to the opinion that I expressed in Re (tilly) 6: using strict and a config file.	[reply]
Re^4: XML for Dummies by massa (Hermit) on Jul 12, 2008 at 15:14 UTC
Config::Any (what I personally use) will read a file with only keys=values (it will consider it as an INI file, without "directories") and in bash, you just source such a file. IIRC you can't read a .xml file under bash, either, so XML is kind of off-limits for said requirement. I respect your opinion, but I still think that inventing the wheel for reading config files is a waste of time. As for your mentioned post, my configs do all four items you put there, just loading with Config::Any and traversing in the appropriate order. []s, HTH, Massa	[reply]
Re^5: XML for Dummies by tilly (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2008 at 15:39 UTC
You are right that Config::Any works perfectly in this case. Thank you for directing my attention to that.	[reply]