XML and Perl

Introduction to XML Generation

One of the fundamental skills you will use when working with XML is generating an XML document. Before any XML processor can operate on an XML document, someone, somewhere (and it might be you) will need to create the XML document. Two methods of generating XML documents exist: static generation and dynamic generation. Each will be discussed in the following paragraphs.

The static approach to generating an XML document typically refers to the manual process of writing the XML document in an editor. This file is initially created and remains the same until someone or something modifies it. Small and simple XML documents can be easily written using just a plain text editor, as long as you are familiar with the ...