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Asked: 2026-05-20T18:37:03+00:00

I answered a question on SO a while back where I initially suggested using

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I answered a question on SO a while back where I initially suggested using XML::DOM. After mirod suggested that I use XML::LibXML instead, I implemented it. And to be honest, it works great on my system. I saw my runtime drop drastically with the new module without doing any additional optimizations.

Now the tricky part, for some reason the module doesn’t even install on my colleagues system.

ppm install xml-libxml returns:
Downloading ActiveState Package
Repository packlist…not modified ppm
install failed: Can’t find any package
that provide xml-libxml

The only difference I could find between the two machines was that I was using AS Perl v5.12.1 and he is on AS perl V5.8.8.

Is xml-libxml supported on AS Perl v5.8.8?

Also, I visited the Active State PPM index and that seems to indicate that its broken on 5.8 all the way through to 5.12.

Does anybody have any experience with this module?
Should I roll back to XML::DOM – which with its slow performance and not being actively maintained, at least installed and worked?

Any pointers would be really appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found that I have to add a repository, like the uwinnipeg repo http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/, when I am trying to install XML-LibXML on windows. Might be your problem too.

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