debian man page for stag-flatten

Query: stag-flatten

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STAG-FLATTEN(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  STAG-FLATTEN(1p)

NAME
stag-flatten - turns stag data into a flat table
SYNOPSIS
stag-flatten -c name -c person/name dept MyFile.xml
DESCRIPTION
reads in a file in a stag format, and 'flattens' it to a tab-delimited table format. given this data: (company (dept (name "special-operations") (person (name "james-bond")) (person (name "fred")))) the above command will return a two column table special-operations james-bond special-operations fred If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the cartesian product will be calculated
USAGE
stag-flatten [-p PARSER] [-c COLS] [-c COLS] NODE <file>
ARGUMENTS
-p|parser FORMAT FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext xml assumed as default -c|column COL1,COL2,COL3,.. the name of the columns/elements to write out this can be specified either with multiple -c arguments, or with a comma-seperated (no spaces) list of column (terminal node) names after a single -c -n|nest if set, then the output will be a compress repeating values into the same row; each cell in the table will be enclosed by {}, and will contain a comma-delimited set of values
SEE ALSO
Data::Stag perl v5.10.0 2008-12-23 STAG-FLATTEN(1p)
Related Man Pages
stag-db(1p) - debian
stag-diff(1p) - debian
stag-grep(1p) - debian
stag-handle(1p) - debian
stag-parse(1p) - debian
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