Since my team at work is using Perl to do some quick and dirty prototyping I have been looking around for some good Perl XML parsers. Stuff that is simple and easy to use, not just a SAX or DOM parser. Because, well…, I’m lazy and the less feces I have to deal with to get the job done, the better.

Anyway, I had looked at XML::Simple but could not find any good introductions or tutorials. (Hint for you geeks out there: The output from Data::Dumper though interesting, is not by itself an explanation or an example of how to use the library in practice.) Finally I ran across this excellent article and thought I should share: Parsing XML documents with Perl’s XML::Simple.