A
Arvin Portlock
I've been trying to find a good XML parsing solution on Windows
for several days and it's driving me crazy! Nothing seems to work.
I started with XML:
arser but with the latest version of Active
State perl, latest ppm installs, perl crashes with the infamous
"Perl.exe has generated errors" on some XML documents. I then
tried Twig but its lack of support for namespaces didn't work
for me, plus its model wasn't a very convenient one for what I'm
doing. LibXML doesn't seem efficient enough for the really huge
XML documents I'm processing.
Finally I'm trying ExpatXS. The ppm didn't install libexpat.dll,
but I managed to find it, and install it. I got an error about
strict "refs" in Base.pm, fixed that by putting in a no strict "refs"
at the appropriate point. Now I'm getting the error:
No _parse_* routine defined on this driver (if it a filter,
remember to set the Parent property) [XML::SAX::ExpatXS=HASH(0x1ab2764)]
at D:/apps/perl/site/lib/XML/SAX/Base.pm line 2308.
I tried the code from the few measily examples I could find
(Here's the latest iteration)
use XML::SAX::ExpatXS;
use strict 'vars';
my $xmlfile = 'test.xml';
my $handler = new MyHandler;
my $parser = new XML::SAX::ExpatXS ( Handler => $handler );
$parser->parse($xmlfile);
package MyHandler;
sub new {
my $type = shift;
return bless {}, $type;
}
__END__
Someone please have mercy on me! I thought parsing XML was
supposed to be easy with perl. I've been using perl to parse
SGML on Windows for years and years. But trying to modernize
to XML is a nightmare on Windows. Perl crashes, ppms don't
work, nobody's supposed to use XML:arser anymore but trying
to pick a better event-based parser is confusing to say the
least. What am I doing wrong? What is the best event-based XML
parsing method that's the fastest and works with huge XML
documents and supports namespaces and entity management?
Help via private email is more than welcome please:
rodent at gmail.com
(replace 'at' with '@'))
for several days and it's driving me crazy! Nothing seems to work.
I started with XML:
arser but with the latest version of ActiveState perl, latest ppm installs, perl crashes with the infamous
"Perl.exe has generated errors" on some XML documents. I then
tried Twig but its lack of support for namespaces didn't work
for me, plus its model wasn't a very convenient one for what I'm
doing. LibXML doesn't seem efficient enough for the really huge
XML documents I'm processing.
Finally I'm trying ExpatXS. The ppm didn't install libexpat.dll,
but I managed to find it, and install it. I got an error about
strict "refs" in Base.pm, fixed that by putting in a no strict "refs"
at the appropriate point. Now I'm getting the error:
No _parse_* routine defined on this driver (if it a filter,
remember to set the Parent property) [XML::SAX::ExpatXS=HASH(0x1ab2764)]
at D:/apps/perl/site/lib/XML/SAX/Base.pm line 2308.
I tried the code from the few measily examples I could find
(Here's the latest iteration)
use XML::SAX::ExpatXS;
use strict 'vars';
my $xmlfile = 'test.xml';
my $handler = new MyHandler;
my $parser = new XML::SAX::ExpatXS ( Handler => $handler );
$parser->parse($xmlfile);
package MyHandler;
sub new {
my $type = shift;
return bless {}, $type;
}
__END__
Someone please have mercy on me! I thought parsing XML was
supposed to be easy with perl. I've been using perl to parse
SGML on Windows for years and years. But trying to modernize
to XML is a nightmare on Windows. Perl crashes, ppms don't
work, nobody's supposed to use XML:
arser anymore but tryingto pick a better event-based parser is confusing to say the
least. What am I doing wrong? What is the best event-based XML
parsing method that's the fastest and works with huge XML
documents and supports namespaces and entity management?
Help via private email is more than welcome please:
rodent at gmail.com
(replace 'at' with '@'))