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YAWriter(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation YAWriter(3pm)
NAME
XML::Handler::YAWriter - Yet another Perl SAX XML Writer
SYNOPSIS
use XML::Handler::YAWriter;
my $ya = new XML::Handler::YAWriter( %options );
my $perlsax = new XML::Parser::PerlSAX( 'Handler' => $ya );
DESCRIPTION
YAWriter implements Yet Another XML::Handler::Writer. The reasons for this one are that I
needed a flexible escaping technique, and want some kind of pretty printing. If an
instance of YAWriter is created without any options, the default behavior is to produce an
array of strings containing the XML in :
@{$ya->{Strings}}
Options
Options are given in the usual 'key' => 'value' idiom.
Output IO::File
This option tells YAWriter to use an already open file for output, instead of using
$ya->{Strings} to store the array of strings. It should be noted that the only thing
the object needs to implement is the print method. So anything can be used to receive
a stream of strings from YAWriter.
AsFile string
This option will cause start_document to open named file and end_document to close it.
Use the literal dash "-" if you want to print on standard output.
AsPipe string
This option will cause start_document to open a pipe and end_document to close it. The
pipe is a normal shell command. Secure shell comes handy but has a 2GB limit on most
systems.
AsArray boolean
This option will force storage of the XML in $ya->{Strings}, even if the Output option
is given.
AsString boolean
This option will cause end_document to return the complete XML document in a single
string. Most SAX drivers return the value of end_document as a result of their parse
method. As this may not work with some combinations of SAX drivers and filters, a join
of $ya->{Strings} in the controlling method is preferred.
Encoding string
This will change the default encoding from UTF-8 to anything you like. You should
ensure that given data are already in this encoding or provide an Escape hash, to tell
YAWriter about the recoding.
Escape hash
The Escape hash defines substitutions that have to be done to any string, with the
exception of the processing_instruction and doctype_decl methods, where I think that
escaping of target and data would cause more trouble than necessary.
The default value for Escape is
$XML::Handler::YAWriter::escape = {
'&' => '&',
'<' => '<',
'>' => '>',
'"' => '"',
'--' => '--'
};
YAWriter will use an evaluated sub to make the recoding based on a given Escape hash
reasonably fast. Future versions may use XS to improve this performance bottleneck.
Pretty hash
Hash of string => boolean tuples, to define kind of prettyprinting. Default to undef.
Possible string values:
AddHiddenNewline boolean
Add hidden newline before ">"
AddHiddenAttrTab boolean
Add hidden tabulation for attributes
CatchEmptyElement boolean
Catch empty Elements, apply "/>" compression
CatchWhiteSpace boolean
Catch whitespace with comments
CompactAttrIndent
Places Attributes on the same line as the Element
IsSGML boolean
This option will cause start_document, processing_instruction and doctype_decl to
appear as SGML. The SGML is still well-formed of course, if your SAX events are
well-formed.
NoComments boolean
Supress Comments
NoDTD boolean
Supress DTD
NoPI boolean
Supress Processing Instructions
NoProlog boolean
Supress <?xml ... ?> Prolog
NoWhiteSpace boolean
Supress WhiteSpace to clean documents from prior pretty printing.
PrettyWhiteIndent boolean
Add visible indent before any eventstring
PrettyWhiteNewline boolean
Add visible newlines before any eventstring
SAX1 boolean (not yet implemented)
Output only SAX1 compliant eventstrings
Notes:
Correct handling of start_document and end_document is required!
The YAWriter Object initialises its structures during start_document and does its cleanup
during end_document. If you forget to call start_document, any other method will break
during the run. Most likely place is the encode method, trying to eval undef as a subrou-
tine. If you forget to call end_document, you should not use a single instance of YAWriter
more than once.
For small documents AsArray may be the fastest method and AsString the easiest one to
receive the output of YAWriter. But AsString and AsArray may run out of memory with infi-
nite SAX streams. The only method XML::Handler::Writer calls on a given Output object is
the print method. So it's easy to use a self written Output object to improve streaming.
A single instance of XML::Handler::YAWriter is able to produce more than one file in a
single run. Be sure to provide a fresh IO::File as Output before you call start_document
and close this File after calling end_document. Or provide a filename in AsFile, so
start_document and end_document can open and close its own filehandle.
Automatic recoding between 8bit and 16bit does not work in any Perl correctly !
I have Perl-5.00563 at home and here I can specify "use utf8;" in the right places to make
recoding work. But I dislike saying "use 5.00555;" because many systems run 5.00503.
If you use some 8bit character set internally and want use national characters, either
state your character as Encoding to be ISO-8859-1, or provide an Escape hash similar to
the following :
$ya->{'Escape'} = {
'&' => '&',
'<' => '<',
'>' => '>',
'"' => '"',
'--' => '--'
'' => 'ö'
'' => 'ä'
'' => 'ü'
'' => 'Ö'
'' => 'Ä'
'' => 'Ü'
'' => 'ß'
};
You may abuse YAWriter to clean whitespace from XML documents. Take a look at test.pl,
doing just that with an XML::Edifact message, without querying the DTD. This may work in
99% of the cases where you want to get rid of ignorable whitespace caused by the various
forms of pretty printing.
my $ya = new XML::Handler::YAWriter(
'Output' => new IO::File ( ">-" );
'Pretty' => {
'NoWhiteSpace'=>1,
'NoComments'=>1,
'AddHiddenNewline'=>1,
'AddHiddenAttrTab'=>1,
} );
XML::Handler::Writer implements any method XML::Parser::PerlSAX wants. This extends the
Java SAX1.0 specification. I have in mind using Pretty=>SAX1=>1 to disable this feature,
if abusing YAWriter for a SAX proxy.
AUTHOR
Michael Koehne, Kraehe AT Copyleft.De
Thanks
"Derksen, Eduard (Enno), CSCIO" <enno AT att.com> helped me with the Escape hash and gave
quite a lot of useful comments.
SEE ALSO
perl and XML::Parser::PerlSAX
perl v5.8.4 2002-01-28 YAWriter(3pm)
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