Source: libxml-simple-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Ansgar Burchardt Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10) Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libtie-ixhash-perl, libxml-libxml-perl | libxml-sax-expat-perl, libxml-namespacesupport-perl, libxml-parser-perl, libxml-sax-perl Standards-Version: 4.1.3 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-simple-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libxml-simple-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/XML-Simple Package: libxml-simple-perl Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libxml-libxml-perl | libxml-sax-expat-perl, libxml-namespacesupport-perl, libxml-sax-perl Description: Perl module for reading and writing XML The XML::Simple module provides a simple API layer on top of an underlying XML parsing module to maintain XML files (especially configuration files). Two functions are exported: XMLin() and XMLout(). . The simplest approach is to call these two functions directly, but an optional object oriented interface allows them to be called as methods of an XML::Simple object. The object interface can also be used at either end of a SAX pipeline. . Note from upstream: The use of this module in new code is strongly discouraged. Other modules are available which provide more straightforward and consistent interfaces. In particular, XML::LibXML is highly recommended. XML::Twig is another excellent alternative.These modules are packaged as libxml-libxml-perl and libxml-twig-perl in Debian.