XML::Grove::AsCanonXML(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 XML::Grove::AsCanonXML(3)

NAME

       XML::Grove::AsCanonXML - output XML objects in canonical XML

SYNOPSIS

	use XML::Grove::AsCanonXML;

	# Using as_canon_xml method on XML::Grove objects:
	$string = $xml_object->as_canon_xml( OPTIONS );

	# Using an XML::Grove::AsCanonXML instance:
	$writer = XML::Grove::AsCanonXML->new( OPTIONS );

	$string = $writer->as_canon_xml($xml_object);
	$writer->as_canon_xml($xml_object, $file_handle);

DESCRIPTION

       "XML::Grove::AsCanonXML" will return a string or write a stream of canonical XML for an XML object and it's content (if any).

       "XML::Grove::AsCanonXML" objects hold the options used for writing the XML objects.  Options can be supplied when the the object is cre-
       ated,

	   $writer = XML::Grove::AsCanonXML->new( Comments => 1 );

       or modified at any time before writing an XML object by setting the option directly in the `$writer' hash.

OPTIONS

       Comments
	   By default comments are not written to the output.  Setting comment to TRUE will include comments in the output.

AUTHOR

       Ken MacLeod, ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us

SEE ALSO

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

       James Clark's Canonical XML definition <http://www.jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html>

perl v5.8.0							    1999-08-17						 XML::Grove::AsCanonXML(3)