XML Modules

XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is becoming increasingly important in the Oracle world. The language most associated with XML is Java, but there's plenty of XML-related Perl functionality as well, and we'll explore that in the context of data munging in this section.

Perl's XML facilities are surprisingly powerful. Some would even claim they go beyond Java, with more than 300 CPAN modules, SAX2 support, DOM support, and machine facilities allowing the pipelining of XML and XSLT transformations.