2004-2008 I worked at The Press Association - we were processing gigabytes of XML a day, many of it in real time feeds pushed out to the likes of the BBC, large

2004-2008 I worked at The Press Association - we were processing gigabytes of XML a day, many of it in real time feeds pushed out to the likes of the BBC, large newspaper publishers, and betting shops. All of this was done with Perl. None of it was done with regular expressions - it was done through XML::LibXML, and thus libxml. Whenever I hear other perl devs complain about XML processing my answer is always the same - just use XML::LibXML. Choosing a different language might gain some advantages, but if you still choose the wrong libraries you're still going to have pain.