They say there's more than one way to skin a cat - and that'stwice as true when you're a Perl developer. In this concluding article onXML parsing with Perl, find out how the XML::DOM package provides analternative technique for manipulating XML elements and attributes, andcompare the two approaches to see which one works best for you.
In the first part of this article, I said that there were two approaches to parsing an XML document. The event-based SAX approach is one; the other uses the DOM, or Document Object Model, to build a tree representation of the XML data structures in the document, and then offers built-in methods to navigate through this tree. Once a particular node has been reached, built-in methods can be used to obtain the value of the node, and use it within the script.
Over the next few pages, I'm going to take a look at a Perl package that supports this tree-based approach. I'll also attempt to duplicate the previous examples, marking up books and recipes with HTML tags, in order to demonstrate how either technique can be used to achieve the same result. Finally, I'll briefly discuss the pros and cons of the SAX and DOM approaches, and point you to some links for your further education.
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