>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.
Hmmmmm....so since the Java XML classes have been written, is it a big
project to translate them into Perl??? Is that a worthwhile project to
champion??? We certainly have a bit of the umppphhh to take this on if it
is a) something that is doable by average mortals and b) something that is
worthwhile??? Probably better than my hairbrained Perl compiler idea :-)
which is a many year project doable by a teeny tiny class of mortals.
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