stag-flatten(1p) [debian man page]

STAG-FLATTEN(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  STAG-FLATTEN(1p)

NAME

       stag-flatten - turns stag data into a flat table

SYNOPSIS

	 stag-flatten -c name -c person/name dept MyFile.xml

DESCRIPTION

       reads in a file in a stag format, and 'flattens' it to a tab-delimited table format. given this data:

	 (company
	  (dept
	   (name "special-operations")
	   (person
	    (name "james-bond"))
	   (person
	    (name "fred"))))

       the above command will return a two column table

	 special-operations	 james-bond
	 special-operations	 fred

       If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the cartesian product will be calculated

USAGE

	 stag-flatten [-p PARSER] [-c COLS] [-c COLS] NODE <file>

ARGUMENTS

       -p|parser FORMAT
	   FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext

	   xml assumed as default

       -c|column COL1,COL2,COL3,..
	   the name of the columns/elements to write out

	   this can be specified either with multiple -c arguments, or with a comma-seperated (no spaces) list of column (terminal node) names
	   after a single -c

       -n|nest
	   if set, then the output will be a compress repeating values into the same row; each cell in the table will be enclosed by {}, and will
	   contain a comma-delimited set of values

SEE ALSO

       Data::Stag

perl v5.10.0							    2008-12-23							  STAG-FLATTEN(1p)

STAG-SPLITTER(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 STAG-SPLITTER(1p)

NAME

       stag-splitter - splits a stag file into multiple files

SYNOPSIS

	 stag-splitter -split person -name social_security_no file.xml

DESCRIPTION

       Splits a file using a user specified parser (default xml) around a specified split node, naming each file according to the name argument

       the files will be named anonymously, unless the '-name' switch is specified; this will use the value of the specified element as the
       filename

       eg; if we have

	 <top>
	   <a>
	     <b>foo</b>
	     <c>yah</c>
	     <d>
	       <e>xxx</e>
	     </d>
	   </a>
	   <a>
	     <b>bar</b>
	     <d>
	       <e>wibble</e>
	     </d>
	   </a>
	 </top>

       if we run

	 stag-splitter -split a -name b

       it will generate two files, "foo.xml" and "bar.xml"

       input format can be 'xml', 'sxpr' or 'itext' - if this is left blank the format will be guessed from the file suffix

       the output format defaults to the same as the input format, but another can be chosen.

       files go in the current directory, but this can be overridden with the '-dir' switch

USAGE

	  stag-splitter [-split <ELEMENT-NAME>] [-name <ELEMENT-NAME>] [-dir <DIR>] [-format <INPUT-FORMAT>] [-outformat <OUTPUT-FORMAT>] <FILENAMES>

       -p|parser FORMAT
	   FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext, or the name of a perl module

	   xml assumed as default

       -w|writer FORMAT
	   FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext, or the name of a perl module

       -split|s NODE
	   node to split on

       -name|n NODE
	   field/element to use when naming files

	   will use surrogate IDs if this argument not specified

       -dir|d DIR
	   write files to this directory

perl v5.10.0							    2008-12-23							 STAG-SPLITTER(1p)