On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Drew Taylor wrote:
> I know this goes a little off topic, so I apologize in advance.
I changed the topic for you :-)
> One big sticking point with Perl I'm just starting to run into is XML.
> Yes, Perl has great XML modules, and many more promising ones. But where
> is the _validating_ XML parser? I'm doing some XML work where a
> validating parser would be very nice, speed hit or not. I can work
> around it easily (this is perl :-), but it would save me some work.
XML::Checker.
Also see www.perl.com which links to Kip Hampton's XML.com article about
validating using XPath.
> The XML & Java combination has a LOT more corporate resources (read $$$)
> focused on it than Perl & XML. How many Java-based XML software
> announcements have you seen lately? Now compare that to Perl-based XML
> modules. The numbers don't compare very well. What can we do about this?
Very little, except produce our own XML modules that can do our work. And
you can help by praising those that do produce good XML modules and by
using the modules that work rather than those that don't (hint: XML::XPath
vs XML::DOM with XML::XQL). Apart from validation, what are you missing?
> I can't help write a validating parser, but I would be happy to help
> test it out. IMHO, more XML support would help sell perl into more
> corporate settings. Java is big into buzzwords, and XML is one of the
> biggest there is at the moment. And as we know PHBs like buzzwords, so
> that is one more point in Java's favor.
Actually XML is one area where mod_perl kicks Java's butt in some ways.
AxKit is *faster* than Cocoon. Please test and see for yourself if you
don't believe me. And building XML based web sites with AxKit is *really*
easy. I built modperl.sergeant.org in 10 days of spare time, including a
content management system for the news articles (note that half of the CMS
code is just a plain mod_perl handler). I'll stick an article online
shortly about how the site is constructed.
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