XML::PugiXML - Perl binding for pugixml C++ XML parser

SYNOPSIS

    use XML::PugiXML;

    my $doc = XML::PugiXML->new;
    $doc->load_string('<root><item id="1">Hello</item></root>');

    my $root = $doc->root;
    print $root->child('item')->text;            # Hello
    print $root->child('item')->attr('id')->value; # 1

    # XPath
    my $node = $doc->select_node('//item[@id="1"]');

    # Compiled XPath
    my $xpath = $doc->compile_xpath('//item');
    my @items = $xpath->evaluate_nodes($root);

    # Modify
    my $new = $root->append_child('item');
    $new->set_text('World');
    $new->set_attr('id', '2');
    print $doc->to_string("  ", XML::PugiXML::FORMAT_INDENT());

DESCRIPTION

Fast XML parsing, XPath support, and DOM manipulation via pugixml.

INSTALLATION

    cpanm Alien::pugixml
    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install

PERFORMANCE

Benchmarked against XML::LibXML (100-5000 element documents):

    Parsing:          8-12x faster
    XPath queries:    2-13x faster
    Tree traversal:   15-17x faster
    DOM modification: 2-11x faster
    Serialization:    2-4x faster

See bench/benchmark.pl for details.

DEPENDENCIES

    Alien::pugixml (build-time)
    Perl 5.10+

LICENSE

Same terms as Perl itself.