Perl: parsing XML, what is needed?

[John Bokma]

Hi,

After some attempts using XSLT I am thinking about switching to Perl with a SAX (like?) parser.

Which module(s) should I use? I see so many XML related modules at search.cpan.org that it is unclear to me.

I have some experience with SAX using Java, so I want to use that but from Perl.

Is a (the?) SAX Perl module also able to validate using DTD or XML Schema? I understand that the latter has some advantages over DTD?

I want to switch to Perl since I am not aware how to do things like determining image width and heigth using XSLT, creating directories and such. I have very small experience with Xalan.

Thanks in advance,
Regards,

John

 

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* John Bokma wrote in comp.text.xml:

Which module(s) should I use? I see so many XML related modules at search.cpan.org that it is unclear to me.

http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/faq/ and there are some articles on xml.com that might help.

Is a (the?) SAX Perl module also able to validate using DTD or XML Schema? I understand that the latter has some advantages over DTD?

There are modules with this capability. Yes, XML Schema has some advantages over DTDs.

I want to switch to Perl since I am not aware how to do things like determining image width and heigth using XSLT, creating directories and such. I have very small experience with Xalan.

XML::LibXML allows you to write extension functions in Perl, you could use both.