Source: libxml-descent-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Bas Couwenberg Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), libmodule-build-perl Build-Depends-Indep: libtest-differences-perl, libtest-pod-perl, libtest-pod-coverage-perl, libtest-xml-perl, libxml-tokeparser-perl, perl Standards-Version: 4.1.5 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-descent-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-descent-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/XML-Descent Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libxml-descent-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libxml-tokeparser-perl Description: Perl module for recursive descent XML parsing The conventional models for parsing XML are either DOM (a data structure representing the entire document tree is created) or SAX (callbacks are issued for each element in the XML). . XML grammar is recursive - so it's nice to be able to write recursive parsers for it. XML::Descent allows such parsers to be created.