barries wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:10:01PM -0500, Drew Taylor wrote:
> > I know this goes a little off topic, so I apologize in advance.
> >
> > 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?
>
> Will XML::Checker::Parser do?
Hmmm, looks interesting. I'll check into it. Any experience (good or
bad) with it? I see that it relies on XML::Parser. How well does
XML::Parser handle the newly available external DTD feature?
> > 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.
>
> <plug>And, if you want to validate while writing, XML::ValidWriter
> might help</plug>.
My biggest problem with XML::Writer (and hence XML::ValidWriter) is that
I can't write to a string, unless there is some hackish workaround. I
remember someone talking about an IO::String sort of module, but it
sounds like using a sledhammer to drive a nail. ;-) I did actually check
out XML::Writer, and even went to far as to replace the IO handle stuff
with a plain old string. But then decided to use something else. While I
love the idea of validating as I write XML, it doesn't help on the other
end. :-(
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