note mirod <p>It might be difficult but I'll try anyway ;--).</p> <p>At least here are a few hints:</p> <ul><li><b>document size</b>: big documents excludes most tree-oriented modules, such as [XML::Simple], [XML::DOM] and [cpan://XML::XPath]<br> big depends on your RAM and on the expansion factor of the module, typically between 7 an 10</li> <li><b>type of XML</b>: document-oriented XML excludes modules such as [XML::Simple] and [cpan://XML::SimpleObjects]<br>those modules don't deal with mixed content (<code><p>this is <b>mixed</b> content</p></code>),</li> <li><b>ease of use</b>: although this is higly subjective [XML::Simple] seems to be considered really easy to use as it completely masks the XML by loading it into a Perl data structure (a pretty convoluted data-structure IMHO, use [Data::Dumper]!), tree-based modules ([cpan://XML::XPath], [XML::DOM], [XML::Twig]) are generally easier to use than stream-based ones, although for simple data extraction [XML::PYX] is very convenient,</li> <li><b>speed</b>: at the moment [XML::Parser] is the fastest (all other modules are based on it) but modules based on libXML should be faster soon ([cpan://XML::XPath] 2.0 for example). Stream-based modules are usually faster than tree-based ones,</li> </ul> 102553 102553