[XML4Lib] document object model

Chris Gray cpgray at library.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Aug 15 09:40:27 EDT 2006


Eric,

I think you'll find the tutorial at w3schools 
<http://www.w3schools.com/dom/default.asp> will get you into the XML DOM 
quickly.  Perl shouldn't be any different from any other language; that's 
the point of the DOM.

Chris Gray
University of Waterloo Library

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to
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 	--Will Durant

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

>
> Can y'all point me to some normative examples of the document object model 
> implemented in Perl?
>
> I have some simple XML documents I want to read. For better or for worse I 
> want to use DOM (not SAX, and certainly not regular expressions) to extract 
> the data I require. There are at least a couple of Perl modules allowing me 
> to do this: XML::DOM and XML:LibXML. Unfortunately, both modules point me to 
> the official W3C DOM documentation, and that documentation is too heavy for 
> me.
>
> Do you know of some "gentle" introductions to the DOM API, preferably for 
> Perl Mongers?
>
> -- 
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>
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