XML::Mini - Homepage and latest version: http://minixml.psychogenic.com INSTALLATION: 3 Methods are available: - CPAN # perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::Mini' - Local perl Makefile.PL make make test su ; make install - Simple (no need for root priv) Since XML::Mini is a pure Perl implementation, you can simply tar zxvf XML-Mini-XXX.tar.gz mv lib/XML /path/to/destination and then, in your code, use: #!/usr/bin/perl use lib '/path/to/destination'; use XML::Mini::Document; # ... create and parse XML! NAME XML::Mini - Stand-alone, pure Perl implementation of the MiniXML XML generator and parser interface (http://minixml.psychogenic.com). SYNOPSIS use XML::Mini::Document; ############# Generate XML ############### # Create a XML document and fill it up my $htmlDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new(); my $docRoot = $htmlDoc->getRoot(); my $html = $docRoot->createChild('html'); my $head = $html->createChild('head'); my $title = $head->createChild('title', 'XML::Mini Generated HTML page'); my $style = $head->createChild('style'); $style->comment("body,td,a,p,.h{font-family:arial,sans-serif;} .q{text-decoration:none; color:#0000cc;}"); my $body = $html->createChild('body'); $body->attribute('bgcolor', '#ffffff'); $body->attribute('link', '#0000cc'); $body->attribute('vlink', '#551a8b'); my $h = $body->createChild('h3', 'This page was generated by XML::Mini!'); my $p1 = $body->createChild('p', "It slices, dices and never forgets the ! heh ;) "); my $br = $p1->createChild('br'); $p1->text("View the source of this page to take a look at "); my $href = $p1->createChild('a'); $href->attribute('href', 'http://minixml.psychogenic.com'); $href->text('XML::Mini'); $p1->text("'s clean HTML."); # Display the page print $htmlDoc->toString(); # ... ############# Parse XML ############### # Parse existing XML string my $xmlDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new(); $xmlDoc->parse($XMLString); # or $xmlDoc->parse('/path/to/file.xml'); # or $xmlDoc->parse(*INPUTFILEHANDLE); # Now we can fetch elements: my $part = $xmlDoc->getElementByPath('partsRateReply/part'); my $partId = $part->attribute('id'); my $price = $partList->getElement('price'); print "Part $partId costs: " . $price->getValue() . "\n"; DESCRIPTION XML::Mini is a set of Perl (and PHP) classes that allow you to access XML data and create valid XML output with a tree-based hierarchy of elements. 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. XML::Mini does not require any external libraries or modules. The XML::Mini.pm module includes a number of variable 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 $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 Hello There 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, $element->getElement('subelement') and $element->getElement('SubElement') will be equivalent. Defaults to 0. Class methods escapeEntites TOENCODE This method returns ToENCODE with HTML sensitive values (eg '<', '>', '"', etc) HTML encoded. Log MESSAGE Logs the message to STDERR Error MESSAGE Logs MESSAGE and exits the program, calling exit() AUTHOR 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 Patrick Deegan 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/ SEE ALSO XML::Mini::Document, XML::Mini::Element http://minixml.psychogenic.com