[Tinyos-devel] XML in Perl in TinyOS?

[David Gay]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, John Regehr <regehr at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I need to parse some XML (dumped from nesC...) in my stack tool.
> Perhaps I mis-grepped, but I can find no use of XML parsing modules in
> any of the Perl scripts that are part of TinyOS 2.x.
>
> So I am left with the question: Which such module should I use, in order
> to not require that everyone who wants to use this tool has to install
> new Perl modules?
>
> A quick survey of machines I use (one Cygwin, one Ubuntu Hardy) shows
> that XML::Parser is available on both systems.  Is that one a reasonable
> choice?
>
> Any help appreciated, I am an XML noob (and wish I could stay that way).

No really obvious comments, except to note that XML::Simple won't
always work (it loses the order of elements in lists, which is
required by some parts of the nesC XML dump, e.g. for function
argument types IIRC).

David