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Template::XML(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Template::XML(3pm) NAME
Template::XML - XML plugins for the Template Toolkit SYNOPSIS
[% USE XML; dom = XML.dom('foo.xml'); xpath = XML.xpath('bar.xml'); simple = XML.simple('baz.xml'); rss = XML.simple('news.rdf'); %] DESCRIPTION
The Template-XML distribution provides a number of Template Toolkit plugin modules for working with XML. The Template::Plugin::XML module is a front-end to the various other XML plugin modules. Through this you can access XML files and direc- tories of XML files via the Template::Plugin::XML::File and Template::Plugin::XML::Directory modules (which subclass from the Tem- plate::Plugin::File and Template::Plugin::Directory modules respectively). You can then create a Document Object Model (DOM) from an XML file (Template::Plugin::XML::DOM), examine it using XPath queries (Template::Plugin::XML::XPath), turn it into a Perl data structure (Tem- plate::Plugin::XML::Simple) or parse it as an RSS (RDF Site Summary) file. The basic XML plugins were distributed as part of the Template Toolkit until version 2.15 released in May 2006. At this time they were extracted into this separate Template-XML distribution and an alpha version of this Template::Plugin::XML front-end module was added. AUTHORS
Andy Wardley wrote the Template Toolkit plugin modules, with assistance from Simon Matthews in the case of the XML::DOM plugin. Matt Sergeant wrote the XML::XPath module. Enno Derksen and Clark Cooper wrote the XML::DOM module. Jonathan Eisenzopf wrote the XML::RSS mod- ule. Grant McLean wrote the XML::Simple module. Clark Cooper and Larry Wall wrote the XML::Parser module. James Clark wrote the expat library. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Template, Template::Plugins, Template::Plugin::XML, Template::Plugin::XML::DOM, Template::Plugin::XML::RSS, Template::Plugin::XML::Simple, Template::Plugin::XML::XPath perl v5.8.8 2008-03-01 Template::XML(3pm)
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Template::Plugin::XML::Style(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Template::Plugin::XML::Style(3pm) NAME
Template::Plugin::XML::Style - Simple XML stylesheet transfomations SYNOPSIS
[% USE xmlstyle table = { attributes = { border = 0 cellpadding = 4 cellspacing = 1 } } %] [% FILTER xmlstyle %] <table> <tr> <td>Foo</td> <td>Bar</td> <td>Baz</td> </tr> </table> [% END %] DESCRIPTION
This plugin defines a filter for performing simple stylesheet based transformations of XML text. Named parameters are used to define those XML elements which require transformation. These may be specified with the USE directive when the plugin is loaded and/or with the FILTER directive when the plugin is used. This example shows how the default attributes "border="0"" and "cellpadding="4"" can be added to <table> elements. [% USE xmlstyle table = { attributes = { border = 0 cellpadding = 4 } } %] [% FILTER xmlstyle %] <table> ... </table> [% END %] This produces the output: <table border="0" cellpadding="4"> ... </table> Parameters specified within the USE directive are applied automatically each time the "xmlstyle" FILTER is used. Additional parameters passed to the FILTER directive apply for only that block. [% USE xmlstyle table = { attributes = { border = 0 cellpadding = 4 } } %] [% FILTER xmlstyle tr = { attributes = { valign="top" } } %] <table> <tr> ... </tr> </table> [% END %] Of course, you may prefer to define your stylesheet structures once and simply reference them by name. Passing a hash reference of named parameters is just the same as specifying the named parameters as far as the Template Toolkit is concerned. [% style_one = { table = { ... } tr = { ... } } style_two = { table = { ... } td = { ... } } style_three = { th = { ... } tv = { ... } } %] [% USE xmlstyle style_one %] [% FILTER xmlstyle style_two %] # style_one and style_two applied here [% END %] [% FILTER xmlstyle style_three %] # style_one and style_three applied here [% END %] Any attributes defined within the source tags will override those specified in the style sheet. [% USE xmlstyle div = { attributes = { align = 'left' } } %] [% FILTER xmlstyle %] <div>foo</div> <div align="right">bar</div> [% END %] The output produced is: <div align="left">foo</div> <div align="right">bar</div> The filter can also be used to change the element from one type to another. [% FILTER xmlstyle th = { element = 'td' attributes = { bgcolor='red' } } %] <tr> <th>Heading</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Value</td> </tr> [% END %] The output here is as follows. Notice how the end tag "</th>" is changed to "</td>" as well as the start tag. <tr> <td bgcolor="red">Heading</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Value</td> </tr> You can also define text to be added immediately before or after the start or end tags. For example: [% FILTER xmlstyle table = { pre_start = '<div align="center">' post_end = '</div>' } th = { element = 'td' attributes = { bgcolor='red' } post_start = '<b>' pre_end = '</b>' } %] <table> <tr> <th>Heading</th> </tr> <tr> <td>Value</td> </tr> </table> [% END %] The output produced is: <div align="center"> <table> <tr> <td bgcolor="red"><b>Heading</b></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Value</td> </tr> </table> </div> AUTHOR
Andy Wardley COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Template::Plugin perl v5.8.8 2008-03-01 Template::Plugin::XML::Style(3pm)