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NAME
XML::Twig - Tree interface to XML documents allowing processing chunk
by chunk of huge documents.
SUMMARY (see perldoc XML::Twig for full details)
XML::Twig is (yet another!) XML transformation module.
Its strong points: can be used to process huge documents while still
being in tree mode; not bound by DOM or SAX, so it is very perlish and
offers a very comprehensive set of methods; simple to use; DWIMs as
much as possible
What it doesn't offer: full SAX support (it can export SAX, but only
reads XML), full XPath support (unless you use XML::Twig::XPath), nor
DOM support.
Other drawbacks: it is a big module, and with over 500 methods available
it can be a bit overwhelming. A good starting point is the tutorial at
http://xmltwig.com/xmltwig/tutorial/index.html. In fact the whole
XML::Twig page at http://xmltwig.com/xmltwig/ has plenty of information
to get you started with XML::Twig
TOOLS
XML::Twig comes with a few tools built on top of it:
xml_pp XML pretty printer
xml_grep XML grep - grep XML files using XML::Twig's subset of XPath
xml_split split big XML files
xml_merge merge back files created by xml_split
xml_spellcheck spellcheck XML files skipping tags
Running perl Makefile.PL will prompt you for each tool installation.
perl Makefile -y will install all of the tools without prompt
perl Makefile -n will skip the installation of the tools
SYNOPSYS
single-tree mode
my $t= XML::Twig->new();
$t->parsefile( 'doc.xml');
$t->print;
chunk mode
# print the document, at most one full section is loaded in memory
my $t= XML::Twig->new( twig_handlers => { section => \&flush});
$t->parsefile( 'doc.xml');
$t->flush;
sub flush { (my $twig, $section)= @_; $twig->flush; }
sub-tree mode
# print all section title's in the document,
# all other elements are ignored (and not stored)
my $t= XML::Twig->new(
twig_roots => { 'section/title' => sub { $_->print, "\n" } }
);
$t->parsefile( 'doc.xml');
INSTALLATION
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDANCIES
XML::Twig needs XML::Parser (and the expat library) installed
Modules that can enhance XML::Twig are:
Scalar::Util or WeakRef
to avoid memory leaks
Encode or Text::Iconv or Unicode::Map8 and Unicode::Strings
to do encoding conversions
Tie::IxHash
to use the keep_atts_order option
XML::XPath
to use XML::Twig::XPath
LWP
to use parseurl
HTML::Entities
to use the html_encode filter
CHANGES
$Id: /xmltwig/trunk/README 4 2007-03-16T12:16:25.259192Z mrodrigu $
See the Changes file
AUTHOR
Michel Rodriguez (mirod@cpan.org)
The Twig page is at http://www.xmltwig.com/xmltwig
See the XML::Twig tutorial at http://www.xmltwig.com/xmltwig/tutorial/index.html
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1999-2005, Michel Rodriguez. All Rights Reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.