{My apologies for not having been logged in earlier when
I suggested XSLT}
As you said: "source XML is large" and contains "non-essential information". His example case was "large" (3.3MB) and searching solely for tags of type <message>. That is a very simple XSLT to output as HTML (fragmentary example, please don't carp about the syntax):
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="message">
<li><xsl:value-of select="current()" /></li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
XSLT can convert XML directly into XML, HTML, or even perl:
@messages = (
<xsl:for-each select="message">
"<xsl:value-of select="current()" />",
</xsl:for-each>
);
I wouldn't want to comment further without a better understanding of the actual "processing" to be done,
but the simple example presented in the question is
practically a textbook case for XSLT.
Whatever. Use the tools you like. |