[NTLUG:Discuss] Perl and XML courses?

[Val W. Harris]

Tom Woody wrote:

>What I need to do on the surface seems very easy...but as I have gotten into it gets harder as I try and understand XML.  I have read 2 books, and both tell me different things...
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>Client A needs to send an XML formated request to our server, we would read the data from the XML request and add the info to the database, process it, and make it available to be picked up.
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>Client A then sends an XML formatted query to our server to see if the job is complete - if it is, send the resulting data back as a properly formated XML document.  If it isn't, reply with the info of the person working it.
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>All we need to do is move data back and forth, nothing needs to be displayed to anyone.  After I get it all working I need to work on the SSL part, but one step at a time.  We have a DTD, I could probably put together a XML file based on this without much problem.  The mental block I am hitting is the code to parse the XML request and respond correctly, and the code to create the XML response. 
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>This wouldn't even be as difficult if I could find any examples of what I am trying to do, but alas I haven't been able to.  Thats when my supervisor suggested a training course to help straighten my understanding.  But I would like to find a course with a perl focus (I don't know java, and my c/c++ experience would put me back at the beginning).  Though I may have to try a XML fundamentals course and try and apply it.
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Tom,

I afraid you're beyond anything I've learned to date.  I haven't parsed any
XML streams yet.  The Apache.org web site ( http://xml.apache.org/ )
makes reference to Xerces PERL.  Xerces is an XML parser, and if I
understand correctly, has PERL bindings.

I hope this helps,

Val

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