From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-04-01T21:49:41+09:00
Subject: Re: xml-simp

On Mar 31, 4:55 pm, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Vetrivel Vetrivel wrote:
> > I have dowunloaded the xml-simple-1.0.12.gem .
>
> > I used  xml-simple to requie .
> >                require 'xml-simple' But it doesn't work
>
> > Then I have given like this  It works,
> >            require 'xmlsimple'
>
> > My question is that,
>
> > How do i know it should be xmlsimple.
>
> In summary, you don't. Read the documentation/examples, or look at what
> files the gem contains and make an educated guess as to the one which
> you should require.

This seems to be one area (of many) where Perl's CPAN is superior. The
naming is consistent. The package xml-simple-x.xx will contain the
module XML::Simple. This will physically exist in the file XML/
Simple.pm. In your code you know to 'use XML::Simple;'

Of course, with Perl's austere naming conventions, you tend not to get
colorful package names like Cucumber, for better or worse. (Though I
just noticed a perl port of it with the module name Test::Cucumber
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Cucumber-0.001/)

-- Mark.