April 18, 2001. For the next few months I will be devoting this column solely to that purpose. This month we will be looking the first of these, the Perl-specific XML interfaces. This is not an exercise in comparative performance benchmarking, nor is it my intention to suggest that any one module is inherently more useful than another. Choosing the right XML module for your project depends largely upon the nature of the project and your past experience.
Different interfaces lend themselves to different kinds of tasks and to different kinds of people.
By Kip Hampton. February 14, 2001. The SAX model is quite different. Rather than building a complete representation of the document, a SAX parser fires off a series of events as it reads the document from beginning to end. By Kip Hampton.