Thanks for the great reply - I'm sure it will come in handy when I search the archived in another 3+ years for "Perl XML modules". :-)<div><br></div><div>I like the pure-Perl implementation of XML::XPath; I too don't have a huge speed requirement (portability over speed in my case wins every time).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'll have to investigate the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">XML-Twig module to see if it is pure Perl or not - it installed under Strawberry Perl and I didn't notice it pulling in a binary compiled version of any files. (Jay - Twig appears to be your XML module of choice - any thoughts on it you want to share?)</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Dan<br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/7 Christopher Cashell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:topher-pm@zyp.org">topher-pm@zyp.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/6/7 Dan Linder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@linder.org" target="_blank">dan@linder.org</a>></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Is there a more current page or discussion about Perl XML modules? I'm not opposed to using XPath (though the Perl Wiki warns against it because it appears to be no longer maintained), but if I come across a show-stopping bug, I don't want to invest a lot of coding time if the module doesn't have an active or responsive development record.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I don't know of a better page for Perl XML info, but I can offer a bit of info on XML::XPath and the suggested replacement.</div><div><br></div><div>XML::XPath is a pure-Perl implementation. I usually grab it for quick and dirty stuff because it's easily fast enough for my needs, and doesn't require external dependencies. If you want something similar that is more actively maintained, I'd suggest looking at XML::LibXML. It uses the GNOME libxml library to do the heavy lifting, and it also provides a similar xpath interface. In my experience, for small XML::XPath projects, porting form XML::XPath to XML::LibXML probably wouldn't take much effort[0]. Matt Seargent, the guy behind XML::XPath, was also the (or one of the) initial guys behind XML::LibXML, so the xpath part looks pretty similar between them.</div>
<div> </div><div>Most distributions have packages for XML::LibXML, but if you're pulling/building it from cpan, you'll need both libxml and its dev/devel package with headers and such.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Dan</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>[0] Take my experience here with a grain of salt. The code I was converting totaled less than 200 lines, and the XML related stuff was only a few dozen lines or so of the code.</div>
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