Eminences, I beg audience related to the following theme :
I am writing a (perl) cgi-bin script to run under mod_perl and thus persistently, said script being repeatedly called upon to parse XML data. The data consists, each time, of a published document description, estimated to be between 2 and 10 Kb.
After parsing, I need to be able to extract most tags and attribute values, to pass them to some other software which does not understand XML.
Coming from a reputed source, I do not expect many issues with the XML per se.
But having had some problems before with memory leaks and/or performance in some perl XML modules, I am asking for your benign recommendations as to what works resonably fast, repeatedly and safely under mod_perl, without swelling the server's memory footprint too much.

Thank you in advance.

In reply to Apache +XML parsing by soliplaya

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