XML::Easy(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    XML::Easy(3pm)

NAME

       XML::Easy - XML processing with a clean interface

SYNOPSIS

	       use XML::Easy::NodeBasics qw(xml_element xml_e_attribute);
	       use XML::Easy::Text
		       qw(xml10_read_document xml10_write_document);

	       $element = xml_element("a", { href => "there" }, "there");
	       $element = xml10_read_document('<a href="there">there</a>');

	       $href = xml_e_attribute($element, "href");
	       $text = xml10_write_document($element);

	       # see specific modules for many more functions

DESCRIPTION

       XML::Easy is a collection of modules relating to the processing, parsing, and serialisation of XML data.  It is oriented towards the use of
       XML to represent data for interchange purposes, rather than the use of XML as markup of principally textual data.  It does not perform any
       schema processing, and does not interpret DTDs or any other kind of schema.  It adheres strictly to the XML specification, in all its
       awkward details, except for the aforementioned DTDs.

       XML::Easy strictly separates the in-program manipulation of XML data from the processing of the textual form of XML.  This shields the XML
       user from the inconvenient and obscure aspects of XML syntax.  XML data nodes are mainly processed in a clean functional style, using the
       XML::Easy::NodeBasics module.  In the (very likely) event that an application requires some more purpose-specific XML data processing
       facilities, they are readily built on top of XML::Easy::NodeBasics, retaining the abstraction from textual XML.

       When XML must be handled in textual form, for input and output, the XML::Easy::Text module supplies a parser and a serialiser.  The
       interfaces here, too, are functional in nature.

       There are other modules for some ancillary aspects of XML processing.

MODULES

       The modules in the XML::Easy distribution are:

       XML::Easy
	   This document.  For historical reasons, this can also be loaded as a module, and (though it is deprecated) some of the functions from
	   XML::Easy::Text can be imported from here.

       XML::Easy::Classify
	   This module provides various type-testing functions, relating to data types used in the XML::Easy ensemble.	These are mainly intended
	   to be used to enforce validity of data being processed by XML-related functions.

       XML::Easy::Content
       XML::Easy::Element
	   These are classes used to represent XML data for general manipulation.  Objects of these classes hold the meaningful content of the
	   data, independent of textual representation.  The data in these nodes cannot be modified: different data requires new nodes.

       XML::Easy::NodeBasics
	   This module supplies functions concerned with the creation, examination, and other manipulation of XML data nodes (content chunks and
	   elements).  The nodes are dumb data objects, best manipulated using plain functions such as the ones in this module.

       XML::Easy::Syntax
	   This module supplies Perl regular expressions describing the grammar of XML 1.0.  This is intended to support doing irregular things
	   with XML, rather than for normal parsing.

       XML::Easy::Text
	   This module supplies functions that parse and serialise XML data as text according to the XML 1.0 specification.

OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS

       Other CPAN distributions that work with XML::Easy are:

       Test::XML::Easy
	   A testing tool, providing Test::More-style functions that check whether XML nodes are as expected.

       XML::Easy::ProceduralWriter
	   Provides a way to construct XML data nodes by procedural code.  Some programmers will find this more comfortable than the functional
	   style offered by XML::Easy::NodeBasics.

       XML::Easy::SimpleSchemaUtil
	   Helps to parse things that are encoded in XML in common ways.

       "XML::Easy::Transform::"
	   This namespace exists to contain modules that perform transformations on XML documents, or parts thereof, in the form of
	   XML::Easy::Element and XML::Easy::Content nodes.

SEE ALSO

       XML::Easy::Classify, XML::Easy::NodeBasics, XML::Easy::Syntax, XML::Easy::Text, http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-
       xml/>

AUTHOR

       Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 PhotoBox Ltd

       Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>

LICENSE

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-11-16							    XML::Easy(3pm)