Re: XML and Perl

[princepawn]

You mean they didn't mention XML::TreeBuilder ? I love that module. It has the same API as HTML::TreeBuilder which allows me to grok HTML or XML with about the exact same API. Also it is a beautiful example of subclassing. He just had to make the elements of XML::TreeBuilder more restrictive.

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[Matts]

It's not a widely used module in the community.

More people use XML::LibXML (in the Perl and XML community), which also supports the same API for both HTML and XML.

[princepawn]

One cool thing about XML::TreeBuilder is the objectify_text method, which turns plain text nodes into pseudo-tags so you can drill down thru the XML and look for particular text.

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