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Template::Plugin::XML(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Template::Plugin::XML(3pm)
NAME
Template::Plugin::XML - XML plugin for the Template Toolkit
SYNOPSIS
[% USE XML;
dom = XML.dom('foo.xml');
xpath = XML.xpath('bar.xml');
simple = XML.simple('baz.xml');
rss = XML.simple('news.rdf');
%]
[% USE XML(file='foo.xml');
dom = XML.dom
xpath = XML.xpath
# ...etc...
%]
[% USE XML(dir='/path/to/xml');
file = XML.file('foo.xml' );
dom = file.dom
xpath = file.xpath
# ...etc...
%]
DESCRIPTION
The Template-XML distribution provides a number of Template Toolkit plugin modules for
working with XML.
The Template::Plugin::XML module is a front-end to the various other XML plugin modules.
Through this you can access XML files and directories of XML files via the Template::Plu-
gin::XML::File and Template::Plugin::XML::Directory modules (which subclass from the Tem-
plate::Plugin::File and Template::Plugin::Directory modules respectively). You can then
create a Document Object Model (DOM) from an XML file (Template::Plugin::XML::DOM), exam-
ine it using XPath queries (Template::Plugin::XML::XPath), turn it into a Perl data struc-
ture (Template::Plugin::XML::Simple) or parse it as an RSS (RDF Site Summary) file.
The basic XML plugins were distributed as part of the Template Toolkit until version 2.15
released in May 2006. At this time they were extracted into this separate Template-XML
distribution and an alpha version of this Template::Plugin::XML front-end module was
added.
The Template::Plugin::XML module is still in development and not guaranteed to work cor-
rectly yet. However, all the other XML plugins are more-or-less exactly as they were in
TT version 2.14 and should work as normal.
For general information on the Template Toolkit see the documentation for the Template
module or <http://template-toolkit.org>. For information on using plugins, see Tem-
plate::Plugins and "USE" in Template::Manual::Directives. For further information on XML,
see <http://xml.com/>.
METHODS
The XML plugin module provides a number of methods to create various other XML plugin
objects.
file(name)
Creates a Template::Plugin::XML::File object. This is a subclass of Template::Plu-
gin::File.
dir(path)
Creates a Template::Plugin::XML::Directory object. This is a subclass of
Template::Plugin::Directory.
dom()
Generate a Document Object Module from an XML file. This can be called against a direc-
tory, file or an XML plugin object, as long as the source XML filename is defined some-
where along the line.
[% dom = XML.dom(filename) %]
[% file = XML.file(filename);
dom = file.dom
%]
[% dir = XML.dir(dirname);
dom = dir.dom(filename)
%]
xpath()
Perform XPath queries on the file. Like the dom() method, xpath() can be called against a
file, directory or an XML plugin object.
[% xpath = XML.xpath(filename) %]
[% file = XML.file(filename);
xpath = file.xpath
%]
[% dir = XML.dir(dirname);
xpath = dir.xpath(filename)
%]
simple()
TODO: As per dom() and xpath() but for XML::Simple
rss()
TODO: As per dom(), xpath() and simple() but for XML::RSS
XML PLUGINS
These are the XML plugins provided in this distribution.
Template::Plugin::XML
Front-end module to the XML plugin collection.
Template::Plugin::XML::File
This plugin module is used to represent individual XML files. It is a subclass of the
Template::Plugin::File module, providing the additional dom(), xpath(), simple() and other
methods relevant to XML files.
Template::Plugin::XML::Directory
This plugin module is used to represent directories of XML files. It is a subclass of the
Template::Plugin::Directory module and provides the same additional XML related methods as
Template::Plugin::XML::File.
Template::Plugin::XML::DOM
Plugin interface providing access to the XML::DOM module.
[% USE XD = XML.Dom %]
[% dom = XD.parse_file('example.xml') %]
[% pages = dom.getElementsByTagName('page') %]
Template::Plugin::XML::RSS
Plugin interface providing access to the XML::RSS module.
[% USE news = XML.RSS('news.rdf') -%]
[% FOREACH item IN news.items -%]
* [% item.title %]
[% END %]
Template::Plugin::XML::Simple
Plugin interface providing access to the XML::Simple module.
[% USE xml = XML.Simple('example.xml') %]
Template::Plugin::XML::XPath
Plugin interface providing access to the XML::XPath module.
[% USE xpath = XML.XPath('example.xml');
bar = xpath.find('/foo/bar');
%]
AUTHORS
Andy Wardley wrote the Template Toolkit plugin modules, with assistance from Simon
Matthews in the case of the XML::DOM plugin. Matt Sergeant wrote the XML::XPath module.
Enno Derksen and Clark Cooper wrote the XML::DOM module. Jonathan Eisenzopf wrote the
XML::RSS module. Grant McLean wrote the XML::Simple module. Clark Cooper and Larry Wall
wrote the XML::Parser module. James Clark wrote the expat library.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
Template, Template::Plugins, Template::Plugin::XML::DOM, Template::Plugin::XML::RSS, Tem-
plate::Plugin::XML::Simple, Template::Plugin::XML::XPath
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