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NAME

       XML::Dumper - Perl module for dumping Perl objects from/to XML

SYNOPSIS

	# Convert Perl code to XML
	use XML::Dumper;
	my $dump = new XML::Dumper;
	$data = [
		 {
		   first => 'Jonathan',
		   last => 'Eisenzopf',
		   email => 'eisen@pobox.com'
		 },
		 {
		   first => 'Larry',
		   last => 'Wall',
		   email => 'larry@wall.org'
		 }
		];
	$xml =	$dump->pl2xml($perl);

	# Convert XML to Perl code
	use XML::Dumper;
	my $dump = new XML::Dumper;

	# some XML
	my $xml = <<XML;
       <perldata>
	<scalar>foo</scalar>
       </perldata>
       XML

	# load Perl data structure from dumped XML
	$data = $dump->xml2pl($Tree);

DESCRIPTION

       XML::Dumper dumps Perl data to a structured XML format.	XML::Dumper can also read XML data that was previously dumped by the module and
       convert it back to Perl.

       This is done via the following 2 methods: XML::Dumper::pl2xml XML::Dumper::xml2pl

AUTHOR

       Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>

CREDITS

       Chris Thorman <ct@ignitiondesign.com> L.M.Orchard <deus_x@pobox.com> DeWitt Clinton <dewitt@eziba.com>

SEE ALSO

       perl(1), XML::Parser(3).

perl v5.8.0							    1999-06-20								 Dumper(3)