C4/ILSDI/Services.pm also uses XML::Simple to do output. Strings are actually composed in the subroutines, making any changes to the schema a C4-editing patch. Having an ILSDI template directory would serve us much better here, I think. -Ian 2012/4/11 Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz>
Op 11-04-12 23:31, Ian Walls schreef:
Right now, the few web services we have all create their XML output using XML::Simple. This is not the fastest parser in the world, so I've been looking to minimize/remove it's usage.
I work with the maintainer of XML::Simple. I'm quite sure he wouldn't object to me putting these words in his mouth: "Don't use XML::Simple, move to something that does things properly. It's deprecated and a bad idea outside of a very narrow set of circumstances."
That's pretty much his advice whenever anyone brings it up.
Looking at it in /svc got me thinking: perhaps we should be using T:T to generate our web services output instead. This would have all the advantages of T:T, and allow us to reuse common portions text.
I've done this for something else, and it's not super-great compared to a real XML system, but it does work and works fairly well. Also, it's very easy.
http://template-toolkit.org/docs/tutorial/Datafile.html#section_Producing_XM...
I don't see it there, but you could make a default filter that encoded everything to XML entities.
Robin.
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