XML::Simple
Jim Dixon stellt das Perl Modul XML::Simple und seine Beschränkungen vor.
Basically, Grant McLean’s XML::Simple has two functions; it converts XML text documents into Perl data structures, mixtures of anonymous hashes and arrays, and it converts such data structures back to XML text documents.
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Unfortunately, you just can’t do some things with XML::Simple. I will elaborate on this in Parts 2 and 3, but XML::Simple has two major limitations. First, on input it reads the entire XML file into memory, so if the file is too big, or if you’re dealing with a stream of XML data, you can’t use the module. Secondly, it can’t deal with XML mixed content, where both text and subelements appear in the body of an element