XML is a textbased markup language that has taken the programming world bystorm. More powerful than HTML yet less demanding than SGML XML has provenitself to be... » 

XML is a textbased markup language that has taken the programming world bystorm. More powerful than HTML yet less demanding than SGML XML has provenitself to be flexible and resilient. XML is the perfect tool for formattingdocuments with even the smallest bit of complexity from Web pages to legalcontracts to books. However XML has also proven itself to be indispensable fororganizing and conveying other sorts of data as well thus its central role inweb services like SOAP and XMLRPC. As the Perl programming language wastailormade for manipulating text few people have disputed the fact that Perland XML are perfectly suited for one another. The only question has been whatsthe best way to do it. Thats where this book comes in. Perl amp XML is aimedat Perl programmers who need to work with XML documents and data. The bookcovers all the major modules for XML processing in Perl including XMLSimpleXMLParser XMLLibXML XMLXPath XMLWriter XMLPyx XMLParserPerlSAX XMLSAX XMLSimpleObject XMLTreeBuilder XMLGrove XMLDOMXMLRSS XMLGeneratorDBI and SOAPLite. But this book is more than justa listing of modules it gives a complete comprehensive tour of the landscapeof Perl and XML making sense of the myriad of modules terminology andtechniques. This book covers parsing XML documents and writing them outagain working with event streams and SAX tree processing and the DocumentObject Model advanced tree processing with XPath and XSLT Most valuably thelast two chapters of Perl amp XML give complete examples of XML applicationspulling together all the tools at your disposal. All together Perl amp XMLis the single book that gives you a solid grounding in XML processing withPerl. «