From: David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> > On 04/17/2012 11:04 PM, flebber wrote: > > I also saw Perl XML - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002053.do > > These will probably both be good references > > I haven't read "Perl and XML" (nor "XML and Perl"). However, I am > working on a project that could benefit from XML. So, I'll need to > explore that path soon enough. > > > > but was a little concern that the publication dates were 2000 and > 2002. Perl and the core technologies involved have had significant > advancement in that time. > > Don't let the publication dates put you off. Good ideas and good books > are enduring. Yes, there are updates; but you won't understand the > updates if you don't understand what is being updated in the first place.
While generally this is a good idea, in this particular case the target was moving so fast that I would not recommend that book. Quite a few modules described in the book are long gone, others appeared, the Unicode handling in Perl has undergone big changes in the meantime, ... Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
