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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? A simpler XML tool Post 302565807 by Corona688 on Tuesday 18th of October 2011 08:58:13 PM
Old 10-18-2011
A simpler XML tool
We've been getting a lot of XML questions lately, and I suspect it's only going to get worse better ... Normal shell utilities just can't handle it and the "proper" solutions, do-everything perl modules or things like xmlstarlet, just make my head ache.

Started coding something tonight. What the mockup can do, right now:

Code:
$ wget -q -O - "http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss" | ./mox item.title 2> /dev/null

<title>Israeli soldier freed after 5 years</title>
<title>Expert: Long road ahead for Shalit</title>
<title>Malaria vaccine tantalizingly close</title>
<title>Clinton makes unannounced Libya trip</title>
<title>Body may be missing Maryland boy</title>
<title>Disabled captives case may grow</title>

$

I'm hoping to eventually make it a language to match and rearrange xml, with a built-in event loop sort of like awk's.
 

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Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::RSS::Reader(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::RSS::Reader(3pm)

NAME

       Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::RSS::Reader - retrieve RSS feeds for inclusion in Wiki::Toolkit nodes

DESCRIPTION

       Use this Wiki::Toolkit plugin to retrieve an RSS feed from a given URL so that you can include it in a wiki node.

SYNOPSIS

	   use Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::RSS::Reader;

	   my $rss = Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::RSS::Reader->new(
	     url   => 'http://example.com/feed.rss'
	   );

	   my @items = $rss->retrieve;

USAGE

       This is a plugin for Wiki::Toolkit, a toolkit for building wikis; therefore please consult the documentation for Wiki::Toolkit for relevant
       information.  This module can, however, be used standalone if you wish.

METHODS

   "new"
	   my $rss = Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::RSS::Reader->new([options]);

       Create a new RSS reader. Valid options are "url" or "file" (a path to an RSS file); only one can be specified.

   "retrieve"
	   my @items = $rss->retrieve;

       "retrieve" will return an array of hashes, one for each item in the RSS feed. The hashes contain three items, "title", "link", and
       "description".

       If the URL or file you specified cannot be retrieved/read, "retrieve" will return undef rather than blowing up and surprising the person
       reading your wiki. If you want, you can specify "debug" to be 1 in the options to "new", which will cause the module to croak instead of
       failing silently.

AUTHOR

       Earle Martin (EMARTIN@cpan.org) The Wiki::Toolkit team, (http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/)

LEGAL

       Copyright 2004 Earle Martin.  Copyright 2006 the Wiki::Toolkit team.

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

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