XML::Smart is a smart, easy and powerful way to access/create XML files/data.
This module has an easy way to access/create XML data. It's based on the HASH tree that is made of the XML data, and enable a dynamic access to it with the Perl syntax for Hash and Array, without needing to care if you have a Hash or an Array in the tree. In other words, each point in the tree work as a Hash and an Array at the same time!
You also have extra resources, like a search for nodes by attribute, selection of an attribute value in each multiple node, change the returned format, etc...
The module alson handle automatically binary data (encoding/decoding to/from base64), CDATA (like contents with < tags >) and Unicode. It can be used to create XML files, load XML from the Web (just pasting an URL as a file path) and it has an easy way to send XML data through socket, just adding the length of the data in the < ?xml? > header.
You can use XML::Smart with XML::Parser, or with the 2 standart parsers of XML::Smart:
XML::Smart::Parser
XML::Smart::HTMLParser.
XML::Smart::HTMLParser can be used to load/parse wild/bad XML data, or HTML tags.
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· Perl