in reply to here-document without interpolation (<<DELIMITER;)
Yes, you found the correct way to do what you were trying to do. The documentation in perlop may not be particularly clear, but the "*" next to "yes" in the "Interpolates" column is explained as "unless the delimiter is ''". So you can use single quotes to prevent interpolation with qx, m//, qr, s///, and here-docs.
-- Mike
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XML::Simpler does not require XML::Parser or a SAX parser.
It does require File::Slurp.
-- grantm, perldoc XML::Simpler
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