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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Can't get my head wrapped around CGI/Perl Post 302280250 by otheus on Monday 26th of January 2009 10:54:06 AM
Old 01-26-2009
I love Perl, but if you're somewhat new to Perl and need to do a lot of scripting for the Web, try using PHP. It's similar to Perl, but much better suited for handling web form data.

Anyway, I don't understand your requirement to take input from a TXT file and output the data as a form. How is the input data structured, and what kind of form are you trying to make? Is there more than one input TXT file? Does each form look the same for each TXT file? How do you define the placement of elements on the page? What kind of validation do you need for user input? What happens to the form data once you've processed it?
 

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

NAME
XML::Easy::Tranform - XML processing with a clean interface DESCRIPTION
The "XML::Easy::Transform::" 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. XML::Easy is a collection of modules relating to the processing of XML data. It includes functions to parse and serialise the standard textual form of XML. When XML data is not in text form, XML::Easy processes it in an abstract syntax-neutral form, as a collection of linked Perl objects. This in-program data format shields XML users from the infelicities of XML syntax. Modules under the "XML::Easy::Transform::" namespace operate on XML data in this abstract structured form, not on textual XML. A transformation on XML data should normally be presented in the form of a function, which takes an XML::Easy::Element node as its main parameter, and returns an XML::Easy::Element node (or "die"s on error). The input node and output node each represent the root element of the XML document (or fragment thereof) being transformed. These nodes, of course, contain subordinate nodes, according to the structure of the XML data. A reference to the top node is all that is required to effectively pass the whole document. OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS
CPAN distributions under this namespace are: XML::Easy::Transform::RationalizeNamespacePrefixes Manages XML Namespaces by hoisting all namespace declarations to the root of a document. SEE ALSO
XML::Easy AUTHOR
Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org> COPYRIGHT
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::Transform(3pm)
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