Re: [tlug] A question about XML

[baluta@example.com (Chris BALUTA)]

> Are there any really good XML tutorials on the web, or perhaps a book
> that is actually useful?

 Here's an online tutorial:

  http://www.w3schools.com/xml/default.asp

 I've used perl modules when I've dealt w/XML. Check them
out at http://www.cpan.org/. There's a stack of them there,
with decent though not great documentation.

 I found the O'Reilley "Perl & XML" (Ray & McIntosh) to be
a useful guide.

> which libs do people preffer for dealing with XML?
 
  Most of the perl modules make use of the (C) libxml/libxml2
libraries.
 
> The project would involve loading objects into a dynamic list.  I do not
> think I want to deal with the XML file in real time, as I am not sure
> how fast that would be, but rather load the data into memory, then save
> it to the XML file at save points.

   I don't even approximate being an XML expert, but I think you'll
want to use the DOM modules for this, which stores an xml document
in memory, as opposed to SAX, which is stream-oriented.
  
 -Chris