XML and Perl
The Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (PERL) has long been a mainstay of server-side programming and a foundation of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programming. Perl has been getting into XML in a big way, and one could easily write a book on the subject.
Perl modules are distributed at the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) site, at http://www.cpan.org, and plenty of them deal with XML (I counted 156). Table 20.2 provides a selection of Perl XML modules, along with their descriptions as given on the CPAN site.
| Module | Description |
|---|---|
| Apache::AxKit::XMLFinder | Detects XML files |
| Apache::MimeXML | mod_perl mime encoding sniffer for XML files |
| Boulder::XML | XML format input/output ... |
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