Does anybody have expierence with XML::SimpleObject::LibXML?

[knoebi]

Greetings fellow monks, I searched today for an alternative for XML::Simple and found many resources how to use Perl and XML together, and finally tried XML::LibXML. But it lacks documentation, or I couldn't find it.
After that I found XML::SimpleObject::LibXML on CPAN and it looks very promising to me. Uses LibXML, a nice interface including XPath, so i tried it and it worked fine so far.
Because I have to decide in the next days to use this Module in productive enviroment or not and because SuperSearch didn't return any results for this module, I would be very interested if somebody here already usees this Module? Probably somebody use it already together with mod_perl?
Thank you for your time reading this post and specially for sharing your experience with me. knoebi

[chromatic]

I've been migrating (slowly) the XML processing within Everything from XML::DOM to XML::SimpleObject::LibXML and like the latter quite a bit.

Converting the XML to node processor was very easy and the code is cleaner and faster now.

[Aristotle]

I hadn't seen the SimpleObject variety so far, but I've used the underlying XML::LibXML wrapper quite a bit (in production, too). I am completely enamoured. It just works, it's very robust, easy on memory (much easier than any XML::Parser based modules), and lightning fast.

Plus, the libxml2 library it's based on has received lots of praise all around. It's known to often be the fastest choice; the accompanying libxslt2 is known as one of the most conformant XSLT processors.

I'd call libxml2 a pretty safe option to bet on.

[sintadil]

Add to this the fact that libxml2 / libxslt are used by GNOME which give them many, many hours on every GNOME desktop for bug reporting, and you have a very wise choice.

[PodMaster]

XML::LibXML. But it lacks documentation, or I couldn't find it.

Heard of perldoc? ( Tutorials -> How to RTFM )

Visit http://search.cpan.org/~phish/XML-LibXML-1.58/ and you'll see:

Documentation

XML::LibXML::Attr	XML::LibXML Attribute Class
XML::LibXML::CDATASection	XML::LibXML Class for CDATA Sections
XML::LibXML::Comment	XML::LibXML Comment Class
XML::LibXML::DOM	XML::LibXML DOM Implementation
XML::LibXML::Document	XML::LibXML DOM Document Class
XML::LibXML::DocumentFragment	XML::LibXML's DOM L2 Document Fragment Implementation
XML::LibXML::Dtd	XML::LibXML DTD Handling
XML::LibXML::Element	XML::LibXML Class for Element Nodes
XML::LibXML::Namespace	XML::LibXML Namespace Implementation
XML::LibXML::Node	Abstract Base Class of XML::LibXML Nodes
XML::LibXML::PI	XML::LibXML Processing Instructions
XML::LibXML::Parser	Parsing XML Data with XML::LibXML
XML::LibXML::Text	XML::LibXML Class for Text Nodes

[knoebi]

Hi PodMaster,

yes, I heard of perldoc.
And yes, I allready looked at the links you supplied, but it didn't help me any further. Its quit complicated and there is no overview. Also looked at the Documentation for the C-API. In the end I looked at the code.
Oh, of course I also looked at the tutorials, did you find anything about XML::LibXML there?
I already mentioned in my first post that I used SuperSearch
ciao
knoebi

[PodMaster]

And yes, I allready looked at the links you supplied, but it didn't help me any further. ...

That is quite different from what you originally said (But it lacks documentation, or I couldn't find it.). It may be "complicated", but the documentation is there. It exists and its comprehensive.
 

Oh, of course I also looked at the tutorials, did you find anything about XML::LibXML there?

I didn't look. You said you couldn't find documentation, i pointed you to a tutorial on that. You super searched, and that's good. How to RTFM teaches never doubt the power of search engines, particularly Google's. And as I'm a believer, I google'd for XML::LibXML tutorial and two good ones
• http://www.perladvent.org/2002/22nd/
• (also referenced in perladvent) http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/14/xml-libxml.html ^{( print )}
I hope those are easy enough to digest.