I�ve now spend the entire day playing with simple Perl examples using XML Parsers, both in an OO manner and with flat parsers, and every indication is that XML is just too slow in Perl. Even reading a 1k file into memory using XML::Xpath takes an entire second before a node lookup can be done.
Does this performance sound right? I have only the simplest needs for reading small XML files and doing very quick node lookups into hash tables. Should I build an architecture in the database I�m using instead of talking to flat files containing XML? I�d be thankful for any of your opinions. Thanks, Mark
