Re: Perl XML::Parser failing tests

From: mirod <[email protected]>
> Robin Berjon wrote:
> > On Mar 22, 2010, at 23:39 , Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> >> Shame there is no statistics about the usage of modules, I would really
> >> like to know what actually is the usage of XML::Parser/expat versus
> >> SAX/(libxml or whatever). Though I do bet there will be a lot more new,
> >> single user, modules built on top of the newest and greatest SAX2.
> > 
> > My bet is that for the most part people are using XML::LibXML (but not the
> > SAX bits).
> 
> My impression, based on talking to people, following the main perl forums and 
> generally whatever gets written anywhere about XML::Twig, is that serious people 
> that do XML for a living, use XML::LibXML. The rest, people who need to 
> Get-Shit-Done, use whatever, mostly XML::Simple.

I would drop the "serious". Of course people that specialize in XML 
and just happen to use Perl now and then will want to use XML::LibXML 
to get something they know. That the docs ... if they happen to look 
at it ... makes sense to them.

> XML::Twig niche would be serious people who don't specialize in XML, people who 
> batch process huge amounts of data plus a decent number of very enthusiastic 
> users who just like the interface.
> 
> There also seems to be a surprising amount of questions on various forums about 
> XML::XPath and XML::DOM. 

I would not be surprised. Good name does a lot. 
I want to use XPath to find something in XML ... XML:XPath. I want to 
parse XML into a DOM ... XML::DOM.

> There is also a fair number of answers with XML::Rules 
> based solutions (mostly from a single poster ;--) although I have no idea how 
> many people actually use it (not that I have any idea about the others mind you, 
> I should generate a graph though).

Neither do I :-(

Anyway, I wrote it for myself so even if no one else uses the module, 
it was worth the effort.

> In short, I understand that Robin doesn't like XML::Parser (and he
> knows I don't like SAX!), but it is still useful, and it should still
> be maintained. 

Agreed. Including closing the old requests in RT that had been either 
fixed or refused as "not a bug", but are still opened. Eg. 
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=28585

The number of open bugs is scary.

I'll try to have a look at them sometime soon and see if I can send 
some patches.

Jenda
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