XML::Grove::AsString(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation XML::Grove::AsString(3pm)
NAME
XML::Grove::AsString - output content of XML objects as a string
SYNOPSIS
use XML::Grove::AsString;
# Using as_string method on XML::Grove::Document or XML::Grove::Element:
$string = $xml_object->as_string OPTIONS;
$string = $element->attr_as_string $attr, OPTIONS;
# Using an XML::Grove::AsString instance:
$writer = new XML::Grove::AsString OPTIONS;
$string = $writer->as_string($xml_object);
$writer->as_string($xml_object, $file_handle);
DESCRIPTION
Calling `"as_string"' on an XML object returns the character data contents of that object
as a string, including all elements below that object. Calling `"attr_as_string"' on an
element returns the contents of the named attribute as a string. Comments, processing
instructions, and, by default, entities all return an empty string.
OPTIONS may either be a key-value list or a hash containing the options described below.
OPTIONS may be modified directly in the object. The default options are no filtering and
entities are mapped to empty strings.
OPTIONS
Filter
`"Filter"' is an anonymous sub that gets called to process character data before it is
appended to the string to be returned. This can be used, for example, to escape
characters that are special in output formats. The `"Filter"' sub is called like
this:
$string = &$filter ($character_data);
EntityMap
`"EntityMap"' is an object that accepts `"lookup"' methods or an anonymous sub that
gets called with the entity replacement text (data) and mapper options as arguments
and returns the corresponding character replacements. It is called like this if it is
an object:
$replacement_text = $entity_map->lookup ($entity_data,
$entity_map_options);
or this if it is a sub:
$replacement_text = &$entity_map ($entity_data,
$entity_map_options);
EntityMapOptions
`"EntityMapOptions"' is a hash passed through to the `"lookup"' method or anonymous
sub, the type of value is defined by the entity mapping package or the anonymous sub.
EntityMapFilter
`"EntityMapFilter"' is a flag to indicate if mapped entities should be filtered after
mapping.
EXAMPLES
Here is an example of entity mapping using the Text::EntityMap module:
use Text::EntityMap;
use XML::Grove::AsString;
$html_iso_dia = Text::EntityMap->load ('ISOdia.2html');
$html_iso_pub = Text::EntityMap->load ('ISOpub.2html');
$html_map = Text::EntityMap->group ($html_iso_dia,
$html_iso_pub);
$element->as_string (EntityMap => $html_map);
AUTHOR
Ken MacLeod, ken AT bitsko.us
SEE ALSO
perl(1), XML::Grove(3)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) <http://www.w3c.org/XML>
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