Re^2: Kindly suggest a good starting point for XML Parsing.

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Re^3: Kindly suggest a good starting point for XML Parsing. by cavac (Prior) on Dec 29, 2011 at 22:10 UTC
it is rather annoying to run into the limits of your tool before you run into the limits of your project. Yes it is. I'm currently in the planing phase on how to rewrite my big projects XML config parser. Which, incidently, is XML::Simple based. While it works quite nicely, it takes some, uh, not-so-nice workaround thinking when writing the config files itself. I must admit, when i started this project, it was the first time i used XML for configuration files. And it was Plug-and-Play, really and saved me quite some time to get started. Still, i'll probably keep XML::Simple around for all those small convert-this-into-that tools. For the typical ten-settings-and-five-comments config files for these kind of tools it is just ideal. So, XML::Simple is a two sided sword. It highly depends on your requirements. BREW /very/strong/coffee HTTP/1.1 Host: goodmorning.example.com 418 I'm a teapot	[reply]
Re^4: Kindly suggest a good starting point for XML Parsing. by Anonymous Monk on Dec 30, 2011 at 13:18 UTC
As are all fine weapons . . . this is understood.	[reply]
Re^3: Kindly suggest a good starting point for XML Parsing. by mrguy123 (Hermit) on Dec 29, 2011 at 20:49 UTC
I agree with you that XML::Simple is sometimes a bit, um, simple, and it is highly recommended to learn the more powerful XML parsers mentioned above. Still, for those rare cases where a very easy to use and "simple" tool can be useful, its a nice thing to know.	[reply]