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My own timid excursion into XML was made for two reasons:
What I was hoping to achieve was a portable, readable file capable of containing a complex Perl data structure, that I could slurp into memory, manipulate, and write back out. XML::Simple is the putative answer to these goals. It was pretty simple, but not brain-dead simple. Some of the arrays embedded in my hash have only one element. Apparently XML, by itself, is unable to distinguish between a single-element array and a scalar, so there is no a priori one-to-one correspondence between plain XML and a Perl data structure. XML::Simple gives you a way to force certain elements to be arrays when the XML file is read, but this amount of finagling was contrary to my objectives. Would I use XML again? Probably not as a general-purpose embodiment of a Perl data structure. For that, I would look around for another format, another module -- or write my own. But my mind is still open for other applications. With this much smoke and heat, there's gotta be a fire somewhere! In reply to Re: XML for databases?!?! Is it just me or is the rest of the world nutz?
by Dr. Mu
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