Perl: XML vs Text for data storage

[JoshT]

I'm going to write a web app in Perl that'll allow some managers at my company to upload and manage Office documents for their departments to be available on our intranet site. For the config files I could use either XML or text files to write info. Which do you guys think would be better? Text files would be easier for me to work with, as I'm not too familiar with dealing with XML thru Perl, but XML is "cutting edge."

Thanks.

[progressive]

I did some work with some news feeds formatted with xml a while ago.

I found this useful, you need xml:arser first!

xml with perl

As for your question, I don't really understand what you are wanting to do, but If you use XML it requires some thought when you design how you store your data !

[progressive]

lol.....how did that smilie get in there! should be xml : parser not arser

[JoshT]

I have XML~Parser.

What I want to do is use a lightweight text based database, so my choices are comma-delimited text files or xml.

[progressive]

I'd go with XML then!

[sail3005]

sounds like XML will make it easier in the end of the day