Madeline Schnapp writes:
> So why can't Perl be a better tool for XML jobs? Is this something the
> Perl core developers should be looking into? We certainly see a huge
> demand for XML and it is continuing to build.
There are a couple of issues that I can see:
(1) the internals make the current implementation of XML::Parser
slow, because calling between C and Perl a lot is slow
(2) there is only one XML parser for Perl, and it has limitations.
I'd love to see some of the more successful Java XML classes
translated into Perl. But a lot of those were written by companies
(e.g., IBM's free parser) and took a *lot* of effort to get right.
Perl hackers just don't seem to have that kind of time. And there
isn't the purchase culture in Perl that there is in Java that would
mean you could sell it to recoup the money it took to pay someone
to write it.
Nat
