[MOBY-dev] Re: [MISC] Re: Perl XML manipulation modules for MOBY

[Jason E. Stewart]

"Martin Senger" <senger at ebi.ac.uk> writes:

> The Moby clients have already one dependency that they need to install 
> anyway - which is SOAP::Lite. This module has other dependencies, e.g. 
> XML::Parser. I wonder why this "default" XML parser is not enough for the 
> rest of the MOBY clients?

XML::Parser only provides the SAX API, and not the DOM API. A lot of
people like to program using DOM, especially with the API expansions
that DOM levels II and III now provide.

If you love SAX and need nothing else, XML::Parser is all you need.

jas.