What's wrong with XML::Simple?

  1. XMLin( "file") looks pretty concise to me. Even when using the OO mode it is still pretty short: my $config= XML::Simple->new( forcearray => 1);
  2. I don't know what you mean by Integrate-able with perl OO, you get a clean data structure, what else would you want?
  3. the forcearray option makes XML::Simple behave sanely I believe.
    4. .

BTW I think your XML structure is not quite optimal, you repeat the X and Y when I believe they should mark a container object (see below).

Finally I have added a simplify method to XML::Twig that should be more or less equivalent to XMLin. It is very much in alpha state at the moment, but if you grab the development version of XML::Twig from xmltwig.com you can try the code below.

So here is the result with XML::Simple and with XML::Twig, output using YAML, both for your XML and for an updated version:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use XML::Simple;
use XML::Twig;
use YAML;

$/="\n\n";

my $xml= <DATA>; 
print "Original Version:\n"; 
print "Loaded using XML::Simple: \n", 
       Dump( XMLin( $xml, forcearray => 1, keyattr => []));
print "Loaded using XML::Twig: \n", 
       Dump( XML::Twig->new->parse( $xml)->simplify( keyattr => []));

$xml=<DATA>;
print "Original Version:\n"; 
print "Loaded using XML::Simple: \n", 
       Dump( XMLin( $xml, forcearray => 1, keyattr => [ 'name', 'type'
+]));
print "Loaded using XML::Twig: \n", 
       Dump( XML::Twig->new->parse( $xml)->simplify( keyattr => [ 'nam
+e', 'type']));


__DATA__
<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>
<config  name="MyConfig">
<blah name="X" type="T1"> A </blah>
<blah name="X" type="T2"> B </blah>
<blah name="Y" type="T3"> C </blah>
<blah name="Y" type="T4"> D </blah>
<l1 foo1="bar1">
<l2 foo2="bar2">
<l3> Sometext </l3>
</l2>
</l1>
</config>

<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>
<config  name="MyConfig">
<blah name="X">
  <foo type="T1"> A </foo>
  <foo type="T2"> B </foo>
</blah>
<blah name="Y">
  <foo type="T3"> C </foo>
  <foo type="T4"> D </foo>
</blah>
<l1 foo1="bar1">
  <l2 foo2="bar2">
    <l3> Sometext </l3>
  </l2>
</l1>
</config>

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In reply to Re: Practical suggestion for accessing configuration data stored in XML format by mirod
in thread Practical suggestion for accessing configuration data stored in XML format by fuzzycow

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