Re^4: Why oh why is working with XML so bloomin' difficult in Perl?

I stand corrected. It has been a while since I installed either, but XML::Twig is a bit easier to install than XML::LibXML.

I can't agree with your view on the memory aspect. While XML::Twig may to keep nothing in memory, it does get pretty leaky. Then again, It has been a while, and not the latest version.

Speed wise though LibXML is much faster than Twig. I had to switch our app from Twig to LibXML because documents in Twig were taking close to 5 seconds each, but LibXML was .05 seconds.

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Re^5: Why oh why is working with XML so bloomin' difficult in Perl? by jeffa (Bishop) on Jan 20, 2009 at 20:42 UTC
Isn't that a classic trade-off? Pick one: fast or light weight. If you can use up as much memory as you want, finding something should not take a whole lot of time. But if you want to keep your RAM usage down, way down -- you have to spend extra CPU cycles to do so. jeffa L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)	[reply]

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Re^5: Why oh why is working with XML so bloomin' difficult in Perl?
by jeffa (Bishop) on Jan 20, 2009 at 20:42 UTC

Isn't that a classic trade-off? Pick one: fast or light weight. If you can use up as much memory as you want, finding something should not take a whole lot of time. But if you want to keep your RAM usage down, way down -- you have to spend extra CPU cycles to do so.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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