XML::Dumper

Description

XML::Dumper dumps Perl data to a structured XML format. XML::Dumper can also read XML data that was previously dumped by the module and convert it back to Perl. The module provides 2 methods: XML::Dumper::pl2xml and XML::Dumper::xml2pl.

Why use XML::Dumper?

if you want to use XML tools on the dumped data
if you just want to be buzzword compliant

Why NOT use XML::Dumper?

in most other cases

Similar Module

Data::DumpXML performs the same functions. Its model is more complex than XML::Dumper so its dumps are more accurate (objects are labelled as such for example) but they might be a little more complex to process.

DBIx::XML_RDB (cont'd)

XML::Dumper (cont'd)