XML::Mini - Perl implementation of the XML::Mini XML create/parse interface.

        use XML::Mini::Document;

        use Data::Dumper;

        ###### PARSING XML #######

        # create a new object
        my $xmlDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new();

        # init the doc from an XML string
        $xmlDoc->parse($XMLString);

        # You may use the toHash() method to automatically
        # convert the XML into a hash reference
        my $xmlHash = $xmlDoc->toHash();

        print Dumper($xmlHash);

        # You can also manipulate the elements like directly, like this:

        # Fetch the ROOT element for the document
        # (an instance of XML::Mini::Element)
        my $xmlRoot = $xmlDoc->getRoot();

        # play with the element and its children
        # ...
        my $topLevelChildren = $xmlRoot->getAllChildren();

        foreach my $childElement (@{$topLevelChildren})
        {
                # ...
        }

        ###### CREATING XML #######

        # Create a new document from scratch

        my $newDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new();

        # This can be done easily by using a hash:
        my $h = {       
         'spy'  => {
                'id'    => '007',
                'type'  => 'SuperSpy',
                'name'  => 'James Bond',
                'email' => 'mi5@london.uk',
                'address'       => 'Wherever he is needed most',
                },
        };

        $newDoc->fromHash($h);

        # Or new XML can also be created by manipulating 
        #elements directly:

        my $newDocRoot = $newDoc->getRoot();

        # create the <? xml ?> header
        my $xmlHeader = $newDocRoot->header('xml');
        # add the version 
        $xmlHeader->attribute('version', '1.0');

        my $person = $newDocRoot->createChild('person');

        my $name = $person->createChild('name');
        $name->createChild('first')->text('John');
        $name->createChild('last')->text('Doe');

        my $eyes = $person->createChild('eyes');
        $eyes->attribute('color', 'blue');
        $eyes->attribute('number', 2);

        # output the document
        print $newDoc->toString();

This example would output :

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <person>
   <name>
    <first>
     John
    </first>
    <last>
     Doe
    </last>
  </name>
  <eyes color="blue" number="2" />
  </person>

XML::Mini is a set of Perl classes that allow you to access XML data and create valid XML output with a tree-based hierarchy of elements. The MiniXML API has both Perl and PHP implementations.

It provides an easy, object-oriented interface for manipulating XML documents and their elements. It is currently being used to send requests and understand responses from remote servers in Perl or PHP applications. An XML::Mini based parser is now being tested within the RPC::XML framework.

XML::Mini does not require any external libraries or modules and is pure Perl. If available, XML::Mini will use the Text::Balanced module in order to escape limitations of the regex-only approach (eg cross-nested tag parsing).

The Mini.pm module includes a number of variables you may use to tweak XML::Mini's behavior. These include:

$XML::Mini::AutoEscapeEntities - when greater than 0, the values set for nodes are automatically escaped, thus CW$element->text('4 is > 3') will set the contents of the appended node to '4 is > 3'. Default setting is 1.

$XML::Mini::IgnoreWhitespaces - when greater than 0, extraneous whitespaces will be ignored (maily useful when parsing). Thus <mytag> Hello There </mytag> will be parsed as containing a text node with contents 'Hello There' instead of ' Hello There '. Default setting is 1.

$XML::Mini::CaseSensitive - when greater than 0, element names are treated as case sensitive. Thus, CW$element->getElement('subelement') and CW$element->getElement('SubElement') will be equivalent. Defaults to 0.

This method returns ToENCODE with HTML sensitive values (eg '<', '>', '"', etc) HTML encoded.

Logs the message to STDERR

Logs MESSAGE and exits the program, calling exit()

Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Patrick Deegan, Psychogenic Inc.

Programs that use this code are bound to the terms and conditions of the GNU GPL (see the LICENSE file). If you wish to include these modules in non-GPL code, you need prior written authorisation from the authors.

LICENSE

    XML::Mini module, part of the XML::Mini XML parser/generator package.
    Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Patrick Deegan, Psychogenic.com
    All rights reserved

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

Official XML::Mini site: http://minixml.psychogenic.com

Contact page for author available at http://www.psychogenic.com/

XML::Mini::Document, XML::Mini::Element

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