Source: libxml-bare-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: perl-xs-dev, perl:native, debhelper-compat (= 13), perl | libtest-simple-perl Standards-Version: 3.9.4 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-bare-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-bare-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/XML-Bare Package: libxml-bare-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: Perl module to parse XML into a Perl hash XML::Bare provides a simple API to read and write XML files, it also provides a function to validate the XML schema. The parser itself is a simple state engine that is less than 500 lines of C. . In comparison to other available Perl XML parsers that create trees, XML::Bare is extremely fast; benchmarking shows that it can even be one or two orders of magnitude faster than similar modules.