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Id: 79228
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: XML-Simple
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Requestors: mst [...] shadowcat.co.uk
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Fixed in: 2.21

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  Sun Aug 26 07:42:08 2012 mst [...] shadowcat.co.uk - Ticket created
Subject: Better recommendations in STATUS section
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 12:41:56 +0100
To: bugs-XML-Simple [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Matt S Trout <mst [...] shadowcat.co.uk>
You might want to ponder adding XML::Twig - XML::LibXML is very overkill for simple tasks and hard to learn, so I'm still regularly seeing newbies ignoring the warnings and trying to use XML::Simple anyway. -- Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems - Perl consulting with a commit bit and a clue http://shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/ http://twitter.com/shadowcat_mst/ Email me now on mst (at) shadowcat.co.uk and let's chat about how our Catalyst commercial support, training and consultancy packages could help your team.
  Sun Aug 26 17:35:13 2012 grantm [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Sun Aug 26 07:42:08 2012, mst@shadowcat.co.uk wrote: Show quoted text
> You might want to ponder adding XML::Twig - XML::LibXML is very overkill > for simple tasks and hard to learn, so I'm still regularly seeing newbies > ignoring the warnings and trying to use XML::Simple anyway.
I'm happy to add a mention of XML:Twig although in my experience Twig really only makes sense to Perl programmers. The newbies that I hear from are typically having trouble with XML::Simple because they don't know references and can't understand the output of Data::Dumper. These users are not XML::Twig's target audience.
  Sun Aug 26 17:35:13 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Aug 27 08:53:54 2012 mst [...] shadowcat.co.uk - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #79228] Better recommendations in STATUS section
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:53:39 +0100
To: Grant McLean via RT <bug-XML-Simple [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Matt S Trout <mst [...] shadowcat.co.uk>
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 05:35:13PM -0400, Grant McLean via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> I'm happy to add a mention of XML:Twig although in my experience Twig > really only makes sense to Perl programmers.
True, but XML::LibXML only really makes sense to people who already know the DOM. Hence I'm suggesting mentioning -both- and hoping that's an improvement. I'm not really sure what's out there that'd make more sense to people new to perl as well as XML - XML is enough of a bag of razorblades on its own :/ -- Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems - Perl consulting with a commit bit and a clue http://shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/ http://twitter.com/shadowcat_mst/ Email me now on mst (at) shadowcat.co.uk and let's chat about how our Catalyst commercial support, training and consultancy packages could help your team.
  Fri Dec 04 14:07:58 2015 grantm [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Fixed in release 2.21. Thanks for the report.
  Fri Dec 04 14:08:00 2015 grantm [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Fri Dec 04 14:08:01 2015 grantm [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 2.21 added