Re: [pcp] PCP question ... leading to pmimport discussion

[Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 10:53 +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> ...
> XML is OK by me, only issue is wrt implementation - will we need to
> pull in an external library?  (and is it available on all platforms
> we need it on, etc?)

I'm guessing this would suffice in terms of general availability ...

http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-Simple-2.18/lib/XML/Simple.pm

I've been able to parse a simple metric and indom specification using
this and all the hard work of parsing is hidden while the resulting data
structure seems OK in terms of making the pmi* calls I need.