NAME

XMLwriterSimple - Light weight re-implementation of XML::Writer.

This module is used internally by Excel::Writer::XLSX.

DESCRIPTION

This module is used by Excel::Writer::XLSX for writing XML documents. It is a light weight re-implementation of XML::Writer.

XMLwriterSimple is approximately twice as fast as XML::Writer. This speed is achieved at the expense of error and correctness checking. In addition not all of the XML::Writer methods are implemented. As such, XMLwriterSimple is not recommended for use outside of Excel::Writer::XLSX.

If required XMLwriterSimple can be overridden and XML::Writer can be used in its place by setting an _EXCEL_WRITER_XLSX_USE_XML_WRITER environmental variable:

    export _EXCEL_WRITER_XLSX_USE_XML_WRITER=1
    perl example.pl

    Or for one off programs:

    _EXCEL_WRITER_XLSX_USE_XML_WRITER=1 perl example.pl

This technique is used for verifying the test suite with both XMLwriterSimple and XML::Writer:

    _EXCEL_WRITER_XLSX_USE_XML_WRITER=1 prove -l -r t

SEE ALSO

XML::Writer.

AUTHOR

John McNamara jmcnamara@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT

© MM-MMXI, John McNamara.

All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.

LICENSE

Either the Perl Artistic Licence http://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html or the GPL http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

See the documentation for Excel::Writer::XLSX.