XML::Simple is Evil [was Re: [Israel.pm] Hebrew to UTF-8, completely out of ideas!]

[Scott Weisman]

david istermann wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> 
>>How do you represent something like that:
>>
>><p>
>>Hello <b>World</b>!.
>></p>
> 
> =====QUOTE=====
> Mixed content (elements which contain both text content and nested
> elements) will not be represented in a useful way - element order and
> significant whitespace will be lost. If you need to work with mixed
> content , then XML::Simple is not the right tool for your job.
> =====END QUOTE=====

You can use Tie::IxHash to preserve order. It obviously has some 
overhead, but when needed worked great. I use it extensively.

Scott