Phoenix.pm: Anyone doing Perl/XML?

[Doug Miles]

I don't know if this is the type of thing you're looking for, but you
might have a look at:

http://search.cpan.org/doc/MSERGEANT/DBIx-XML_RDB-0.05/XML_RDB.pm

Scott Walters wrote:
> 
> Doug,
> 
> Planning on writting a minimal XML writter and perhaps a reader that somehow (don't ask me how)
> maps the data to a good relational database (ie, first 4 normals).
> 
> I haven't put too much thought into it yet (except figuring out how im going to get out of
> having to do it which has so far been unsuccessful), except that I can assume the tables
> will follow the tree structure of the data like this, for example: the first 3 layers of
> depth will go to one table; the next 5 (lets say) layers of depth will go to another table,
> that the first table relates to; the next 2 layers of depth (for example) will go to a third
> table, that relates to the second table. As given attributes at a given depth change,
> relational keys change.
> 
> This is an extention of a technique of report generation I use elsewhere, where as different
> rows in the output of a query change, data is aggreated (ie, new column or row in a chart),
> new headers are inserted, etc, etc. This has proved a great way to abstract the details of
> reporting on data from arbitrary queries.
> 
> What I'm interested to know is:
> 
> 0) has this been done already, or tried and prove impractical?
> a) is anyone else interested in this?
> I) does anyone know any good sauces that go with blueberry pasta? i seem to have blueberry pasta...
> x) does the event driven model and datastructure driven models of most XML parsers seem to be
>    the wrong approach to anyone else?
> 
> >           sysread HANDLE,my $slurp,-s HANDLE;
> Rob, have you benchmarked my $slurp = `cat $fn` ? i wanna know =) And how do DSPs differ
> from traditional processors? What makes a DSP a DSP? I'm curious =)
> 
> Thanks again, Doug, for hosting another worship session for us miscreants =)
> 
> cheers!
> 
> -scott
> 
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Svirskas Rob-ERS007 wrote:
> 
> > Doug;
> >      I'm pretty new to the XML stuff, so probably can't help much there (I've played with XML::Writer to generate XML once or twice, haven't tried Grove).
> >
> > In a totally unrelated subject, last night in the midst of your lesson on Camel anatomy, we had briefly discussed slurping a file (I think while we were on the subject of $/). A while back, I started using sysread, as in:
> >           sysread HANDLE,my $slurp,-s HANDLE;
> >
> > I suppose there could be some platform issues 'cause of the "-s", but it works fine on Solaris :-). The sysread runs faster and sucks down less CPU. Here's a benchmark for 1000 slurps of a 12 MB file:
> >
> > Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of do loop, sysread...
> >         do: 201 wallclock secs (108.34 usr + 90.51 sys = 198.85 CPU)
> >    sysread: 63 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr + 63.39 sys = 63.43 CPU)
> >
> > Here's the "do" I compared it against:
> >           my $slurp = do { local $/; <HANDLE>; };
> >
> >
> >                                                 - Rob
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: doug.miles at bpxinternet.com [mailto:doug.miles at bpxinternet.com]
> > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 3:05 PM
> > To: Phoenix.pm
> > Subject: Phoenix.pm: Anyone doing Perl/XML?
> >
> >
> > Anyone out there doing Perl/XML stuff?  I need to be able to convert
> > different data sources to XML.  I think that XML::Grove looks like my
> > best bet, but the documentation and examples are geared more towards
> > parsing rather than XML generation.  Any comments or suggestions?
> >
> > --
> > - Doug
> >
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- Doug

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