# XML::Parser::Style::Tree - phpMan ## NAME [XML::Parser::Style::Tree] - Tree style parser ## SYNOPSIS use [XML::Parser]; my $p = [XML::Parser]->new(Style => 'Tree'); my $tree = $p->parsefile('foo.xml'); ## DESCRIPTION This module implements [XML::Parser]'s Tree style parser. When parsing a document, "parse()" will return a parse tree for the document. Each node in the tree takes the form of a tag, content pair. Text nodes are represented with a pseudo-tag of "0" and the string that is their content. For elements, the content is an array reference. The first item in the array is a (possibly empty) hash reference containing attributes. The remainder of the array is a sequence of tag-content pairs representing the content of the element. So for example the result of parsing: Hello thereHowdydo would be: Tag Content ================================================================== [foo, [{}, head, [{id => "a"}, 0, "Hello ", em, [{}, 0, "there"]], bar, [ {}, 0, "Howdy", ref, [{}]], 0, "do" ] ] The root document "foo", has 3 children: a "head" element, a "bar" element and the text "do". After the empty attribute hash, these are represented in it's contents by 3 tag-content pairs.