man CGI::XML () - Perl extension for converting CGI.pm variables to/from XML

NAME

CGI::XML - Perl extension for converting CGI.pm variables to/from XML

  use CGI::XML;
  $q = new CGI::XML;

  # convert CGI.pm variables to XML
  $xml = $q->toXML;
  $xml = $q->toXML($root);

  # convert XML to CGI.pm variables
  $q->toCGI($xml);

The CGI::XML module converts CGI.pm variables to XML and vice versa.

CGI::XML is a subclass of CGI.pm, so it reads the CGI variables just as CGI.pm would.

$q = new CGI::XML: creates a new instance of CGI::XML. You also have access to all of the methods in CGI.pm.
$q->toXML([$root]): where $root is an optional parameter that specifies the root element. By default, toXML will not return a root element.
$q->toCGI($xml): where $xml is the XML you would like to convert to CGI.pm parameters. Values in the XML will overwrite any existing values if they exist.

CGI::XML does not currently handle multiple selections passed from HTML forms. This will be added in a future release.

Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>

David Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net>