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Conrad, Bill (ThomasTech) wrote:
> ` I spend most of my time developing Perl Scripts to process SGML/XML
> into and out of composition system. Most of the books I have on PERL are
> obsolete because they don't address new features of the various PERL
> packages. Most of the GUI interface I used was based on PERL Tk and UNIX.
> When I went to WIN32 GUI I couldn't find a book so I used the PERL Package
> HTML doc.
Apart from the large ones, CPAN packages rarely justify having a book about
them. There's just too much to cover. It does seem however that ORA is on a
mission to cover all the major parts of CPAN, so I guess they sell a bit. Apart
from that, the Camel book ed3 is all that's needed for Perl per se. [OT bit: for
GUI you could use Wx, it's cross-platform and looks native for the platform it's
running on].
> I think that when technology changes as rapidly as it is, books are
> not the answer. I would much rather see electronic books that are updated on
> a regular basis. This is something that I would even be willing to subscribe
> to and always thought that O'Reilly & Associates would have headed in that
> direct.
Well ORA has Safari, which I found to be good. Applying the same type of system
to books that are more regularly updated might indeed be a good idea (but I
wouldn't want to be editor of the the permanent revolution).
> One Question. Is PERL or JAVA the language of choice for processing
> XML?
That's not really a question that can be properly answered. Both provide many
tools, some similar, some different. Since I'm in a flame-bait mood I'd be
tempted to summarize the difference as "Java has more implementations of specs
you don't need, Perl has more implementations of things you need that aren't
specs". But overall it seems no one has broken the problem of providing a good
API to XML that fits many needs alike, and both Perl and Java tend to suck at
least half of the time. I've heard good things about work being done on more
"native" APIs, such as:
http://dev2dev.bea.com/products/wlworkshop/articles/JSchneider_XML.jsp
but haven't had a chance to look deeply into it yet.
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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
Research Scientist, Expway http://expway.com/
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