October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 40m
English
Over the last few years, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and related technologies have grown enormously large and complex. The number of tools available to work with XML is also growing. Luckily, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are available that hide some of the complexities of the technology and provide a clean and simple interface for the developer. I’m going to discuss the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (Perl) module APIs that support XML processing, and as you’ll soon see, an API exists to perform just about any XML-related task.You’ll also learn how to customize your XML processing facilities to accomplish unique tasks.
This first chapter lays the foundation for the book’s approach to XML and Perl ...