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Spitters has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey. I need to parse an extremely large XML database. First I want to generate simple ASCII lists of all values of certain elements on various levels in the XML structure. So that's a on-time action and I don't really mind if it takes a while to finish. But, later I also want to be able to receive elements from the database really fast, or find element values real-time and stuff. I don't have any experience with XML modules for Perl, so my questions are: 1) what's the most appropriate XML parser for processing large XML files? 2) can anyone provide some code for basic operations? Thanks a lot, Martijn