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NAME
    XML::Grove::AsCanonXML - output XML objects in canonical XML

SYNOPSIS
     use XML::Grove::AsCanonXML;

     # Using as_canon_xml method on XML::Grove objects:
     $string = $xml_object->as_canon_xml( OPTIONS );

     # Using an XML::Grove::AsCanonXML instance:
     $writer = XML::Grove::AsCanonXML->new( OPTIONS );

     $string = $writer->as_canon_xml($xml_object);
     $writer->as_canon_xml($xml_object, $file_handle);

DESCRIPTION
    "XML::Grove::AsCanonXML" will return a string or write a stream of canonical XML for an XML
    object and it's content (if any).

    "XML::Grove::AsCanonXML" objects hold the options used for writing the XML objects. Options can
    be supplied when the the object is created,

        $writer = XML::Grove::AsCanonXML->new( Comments => 1 );

    or modified at any time before writing an XML object by setting the option directly in the
    `$writer' hash.

OPTIONS
    Comments
        By default comments are not written to the output. Setting comment to TRUE will include
        comments in the output.

AUTHOR
    Ken MacLeod, ken AT bitsko.us

SEE ALSO
    perl(1), XML::Parser(3), XML::Grove(3).

    James Clark's Canonical XML definition <http://www.jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html>