Re^2: map <IF> to hash with replacement

[Your Mother]

I understand this is well intentioned but I think it's bad advice. XML::Twig, XML::Rules, and XML::LibXML are probably all to be preferred over XML::Parser; I'd argue the libxml wrapper is definitely a better choice. And XML::Simple is anything but; it's a maze of special cases and their mapping parameters. It can be a very useful module but I wouldn't recommend it without knowing the problem and input at hand.

[mrdvt92]

I would use XML::Simple. It's dead easy to bring XML in as Perl structures.

use XML::Simple qw{XMLin};
print keys %{XMLin("<root><x>1</x><y>2</y></root>")};

This prints "xy".

[Your Mother]

Only in trivial circumstances. This has been discussed here at length. Even the author of XML::Simple recommends XML::LibXML in the other, manifold cases: Stepping up from XML::Simple to XML::LibXML.