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net::google::code::atomparser

Net::Google::Code::AtomParser(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			Net::Google::Code::AtomParser(3pm)

NAME

       Net::Google::Code::AtomParser - AtomParser with a parsing method for gcode

DESCRIPTION

INTERFACE

   new
   parse( $xml_content )
       return( $feed, $entries ), $feed is a hashref like {
	   'title' => 'Issue updates for project net-google-code on Google Code',
	   'id' => 'http://code.google.com/feeds/p/net-google-code/issueupdates/basic',
	   'updated' => '2009-06-12T05:55:48Z' }

       $entries is an arrayref like [
	   {
	       'content' => '<pre>second comment
	</pre>
	',
	       'name'  => 'sunnavy',
	       'title' => 'Update 2 to issue 22 ("for sd test")',
	       'id' => 'http://code.google.com/feeds/p/net-google-code/issueupdates/basic/22/2',
	       'updated' => '2009-06-12T05:55:48Z'
	   },
	   {
	       'content' => '<pre>first comment
	</pre>
	',
	       'name'  => 'sunnavy',
	       'title' => 'Update 1 to issue 22 ("for sd test")',
	       'id' => 'http://code.google.com/feeds/p/net-google-code/issueupdates/basic/22/1',
	       'updated' => '2009-06-12T05:55:22Z'
	   }, ]

AUTHOR

       sunnavy	"<sunnavy@bestpractical.com>"

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2008-2010 Best Practical Solutions.

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

perl v5.10.1							    2010-01-29					Net::Google::Code::AtomParser(3pm)

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