Sebastopol, CA--More powerful and flexible than the web-specific HTML,
yet less demanding than SGML, XML is the perfect tool for formatting
documents of any level of complexity, from web pages to legal contracts
to books. Moreover, XML has proven indispensable for packaging and
conveying other sorts of data, making it central to web services such
as SOAP and XML-RPC.
Since the Perl programming language was tailor-made for manipulating
text and can easily handle almost any other kind of data, few have
disputed the fact that Perl and XML are perfectly suited for each
other.
"Perl is used for many web servers and applications because of its
strong powers of text handling," says Erik Ray, co-author of the new
book Perl & XML (O'Reilly, $34.95) "Perl has had database support for
many years. But XML has only just started to become well-supported in
Perl. The first phase is over, where ad hoc modules like XML::Parser
have gone about as far as they can go. Now we are in the second phase,
where modules are much better organized and adhere to standards like
DOM and SAX. This is a much more useful and promising era for Perl
coders."
"Perl & XML" is written for Perl programmers who need to work with XML
documents and data. "The biggest problem with Perl and XML is the sheer
number of modules which do something XML-related," says Ray. This new
book helps untangle CPAN and gives a complete, comprehensive tour of
the landscape of Perl and XML, making sense of the myriad of modules,
terminology, and techniques. The last two chapters of "Perl & XML" may
be the most valuable of all--they give complete examples of XML
applications, pulling together all the tools at your disposal.
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By Erik T. Ray & Jason McIntosh
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