Changes for version 0.01 - 2026-03-04

  • Initial release
  • Fast XML parsing via pugixml (8-12x faster than XML::LibXML)
  • Document: load_file, load_string, save_file, to_string, reset
  • DOM navigation: root, child, children, parent, first_child, last_child, next_sibling, previous_sibling, find_child_by_attribute
  • Attributes: attr, attrs, append_attr, prepend_attr, set_attr, remove_attr
  • Modification: append_child, prepend_child, insert_child_before/after, append_copy, prepend_copy, insert_copy_before/after, remove_child
  • Special nodes: append_cdata, append_comment, append_pi
  • XPath: select_node, select_nodes, compile_xpath with evaluate_node/nodes/string/number/boolean
  • Node info: name, value, text, type, path, hash, offset_debug, valid
  • Attribute types: as_int, as_uint, as_llong, as_ullong, as_double, as_bool
  • Parse/format constants for fine-grained control
  • UTF-8 support
  • Reference-counted memory model (nodes keep document alive)

Modules

Perl binding for pugixml C++ XML parser