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in reply to Re: Why oh why is working with XML so bloomin' difficult in Perl?
in thread Modified title: The structures created by many of the XML parsers in Perl appear unnecessarily deep in levels...

Standardized ne Native. Using a language agnostic standard can help if you work with several languages, but it tends to come for a price. The standard can only use the common parts of the languages. Which means sometimes it feels unnatural and sometimes it's more complicated than it could be. "go native" is just hype. Go with the standard if it makes sense to you, use a (language) specific solution if it makes better sense.