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<P><FONT SIZE=2>From: D. Hageman [<A HREF="mailto:dhageman@dracken.com">mailto:dhageman@dracken.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Doug Sparling wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Quoting Garrett Goebel <garrett@scriptpro.com>:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > Which would people rather hear about next month:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > o Apache mod_perl</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > o Regular Expressions</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > > o your suggestion here</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Another suggestion...Perl/XML.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > I've only used XML::Parser, XML::RSS and XML::DOM, but I </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > know there's a lot more out there. I just picked up the New </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > Riders _XML and Perl_ book and it looks promising (more so </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> > than the O'Reilly book).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> I have played with quite a few of the XML modules on CPAN,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> but keep comming back to XML::LibXML. It seems to be the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> fastest and most full featured. In some ways, it is in a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> state of disrepair in its current form using the most recent</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> C versions of the libxml2 library -- but that is being</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> resolved quickly. The CVS tree for this module already </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> has many fixes for these issues already in place and it</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> should be back up to par shortly. I have two modules on</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> CPAN currently that use this module: TEI::Lite and</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> XML::XForms::Generator.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> XML is definately some neat technology if it isn't abused. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I wonder if you'd be willing to do a presentation on XML::LibXML some time? I'm currently trying to work my way toward grokking AxKit and the foundations it is built upon. So any discussion of LibXML and/or XForms would be very welcome. Your comments remind me of how the AxKit people recommend XML::LibXML 1.52 over 1.53. And as AxKit is based upon so very many other modules there are certain combinations of modules which are more favored than others...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>--</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Garrett Goebel</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>IS Development Specialist</FONT>
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