I’ve used the perl one as well. And while I’ll agree the XML handled needs to be simple, I’d say the the use case needn’t be.
At one job dealt with 10 and 20 Megabyte XML files on a daily basis - and I never thought of throwing XML::Simple at those. The results would be anything but Simple.
On the other hand I’ve run production code for years with an XML::Simple client to XML only RESTish API with ~100 endpoints. And that suckers still critical infrastructure - and barely being touched. Just humming along.
XML::Simple was glorious for working with 1-100K documents. I've used it on bigger docs and it actually handles them pretty gracefully although I've never tried at scale.
At one job dealt with 10 and 20 Megabyte XML files on a daily basis - and I never thought of throwing XML::Simple at those. The results would be anything but Simple.
On the other hand I’ve run production code for years with an XML::Simple client to XML only RESTish API with ~100 endpoints. And that suckers still critical infrastructure - and barely being touched. Just humming along.