On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 03:13:09PM +0200, Kris Boulez wrote: > What is peoples preferred module for writing XML (files) from within > Perl ? The data is read by a perl script from different (heterogeneous) > sources and stored internally in a tree of objects. > > I looked around a bit and saw XML::Writer being mentioned a lot. Is it > this what most people are using ?
When I needed to write out some XML at work for reading by someone's Java application (Not that what reads it should matter) I had a play with XML::Writer to start with, but kept having problems with it dumping illegal characters into the XML. Hmm. Ended up using the XML::LibXML module, a very different approach in that XML is produced as a tree and then written out all at once rather than line-by-line. This did have the advantage that I can't think how I could force it to produce invalid XML, and I had a lot less conditional logic to deal with. On the downside it naturally used up more memory, but since I wasn't dealing with overly huge datafiles this wasn't too much of an issue for me. Paul Golds
