Excel:...Lwriter(3pm)

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💖 XMLwriter — wait, bestie, the manual calls it Excel:...Lwriter(3pm) 🌸

okay so this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's filed under Excel:...Lwriter(3pm) — yes the name is literally that, the truncation is serving cunty Victoriana and we're just going to live with it. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

XMLwriter — a base class for the Excel::Writer::XLSX writer classes. that's it, that's the name, she's a foundation girlie 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓: this module is used by Excel::Writer::XLSX for writing XML documents. it's a light weight re-implementation of XML::Writer — like, the same vibe, way less baggage.

XMLwriter is approximately twice as fast as XML::Writer. ⚡🔥 and the way she gets that speed? bestie, it's achieved at the expense of error and correctness checking. no cap. she's fast because she's not checking your work. 🙈

on top of that, not all of the XML::Writer methods are implemented. so some stuff you'd expect just… isn't there. not me finding out the hard way. 😭

so as such, XMLwriter is not recommended for use outside of Excel::Writer::XLSX. she's a ride-or-die for that one module only. don't take her to other parties. 👑

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • XML::Writer — the original icon, the blueprint, the blueprint that's slower but does more checking 💖

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

John McNamara — jmcnamara@cpan.org

(he literally built this. main character energy fr fr. 👑)

(c) MM-MMXXV, 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. 🫶 slay.

💜 LICENSE 💜

Either the Perl Artistic Licence https://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html or the GNU General Public License v1.0 or later https://dev.perl.org/licenses/gpl1.html

pick your fave, both are valid, both are iconic. ✨

💀 DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY 💀

See the documentation for Excel::Writer::XLSX. that's where the warranty discourse lives, go read it, i'm not repeating it. 😌

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came from perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-12-22, and yes the footer still says Excel:...Lwriter(3pm) like it's too cool to spell the whole thing out. 💅 periodt. 🦋

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