Submitted by “This series is a guide to those who need a quick XML-and-Perl solution. In a surprisingly large number of cases, you only need one tool to integrate XML into a Perl application, XML::Simple. Part 1 tells you where to get it, how to use it, and where to go next. Once you whet your appetite for working with XML in Perl, the other two articles in this series will help you sharpen your new skills further.”
When looking into this I also found YAML (http://yaml.org) and JSON (http://www.json.org). Both look very promising if you need a lightweight alternativ to XML.
Edited 2007-02-05 07:54
is very nice. we’ve been using it for a few years now in one of our applications.
Don’t know if you’ll think it’s any good, but I’ve been using it for some time now (and liking it):
XML::DT
http://search.cpan.org/~ambs/XML-DT-0.47/DT.pm
I’ve been using XML::Simple for quite awhile. very nice.
One poster mentions YAML which I have also been using. It’s not so much lightweight as readability for simple config files. But nothing really beats the Dumper format if everything is going to be perl anwyay.