Michel Rodriguez has announced version 1.9 of XML::Twig, a Perl XML module that allows the processing of documents too large to process via the DOM.

The module offers a mixed stream/tree model, where sub-documents can be processed as trees and then flushed to free the memory. Version 1.9 adds whitespace control, proper support for CDATA sections and some optimizations.

More information can be obtained from the XML::Twig homepage.

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