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NAME

Data::asXML - convert data structures to/from XML

SYNOPSIS

    use Data::asXML;
    my $dxml = Data::asXML->new();
    my $dom = $dxml->encode({
        'some' => 'value',
        'in'   => [ qw(a data structure) ],
    });

    my $data = $dxml->decode(q{
        <HASH>
            <KEY name="some"><VALUE>value</VALUE></KEY>
            <KEY name="in">
                <ARRAY>
                    <VALUE>a</VALUE>
                    <VALUE>data</VALUE>
                    <VALUE>structure</VALUE>
                </ARRAY>
            </KEY>
        </HASH>
    });

    my (%hash1, %hash2);
    $hash1{other}=\%hash2;
    $hash2{other}=\%hash1;
    print Data::asXML->new->encode([1, \%hash1, \%hash2])->toString;
    
    <ARRAY>
        <VALUE>1</VALUE>
    	<HASH>
		    <KEY name="other">
			    <HASH>
				    <KEY name="other">
					    <HASH href="../../../../*[2]"/>
    				</KEY>
	    		</HASH>
		    </KEY>
    	</HASH>
    	<HASH href="*[2]/*[1]/*[1]"/>
    </ARRAY>

For more examples see t/01_Data-asXML.t.

WARNING

experimental, use at your own risk :-)

DESCRIPTION

There are couple of modules mapping XML to data structures. (XML::Compile, XML::TreePP, XML::Simple, ...) but they aim at making data structures adapt to XML structure. This one defines couple of simple XML tags to represent data structures. It makes the serialization to and from XML possible.

For the moment it is an experiment. I plan to use it for passing data structures as DOM to XSLT for transformations, so that I can match them with XPATH similar way how I access them in Perl.

/HASH/KEY[@name="key"]/VALUE
/HASH/KEY[@name="key2"]/ARRAY/*[3]/VALUE
/ARRAY/*[1]/VALUE
/ARRAY/*[2]/HASH/KEY[@name="key3"]/VALUE

If you are looking for a module to serialize your data, without requirement to do so in XML, you should probably better have a look at JSON::XS or Storable.

PROPERTIES

pretty

(default 1 - true) will insert text nodes to the XML to make the output indented.

safe_mode

(default undef - false)

in case of encode() perform the xml string decoding back and will compare the two data structures to be sure the data can be reconstructed back without errors.

in case of a decode() it will decode to data then encode to xml string and from xml string decode back to data. this two data values are then compared.

Both compares is done using Test::Deep::NoTest::eq_deeply.

namespace

(default undef - false)

adds xml:ns attribute to the root element. if namespace is set to 1 the xml:ns will be http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Data::asXML otherwise it will be the value of namespace.

METHODS

new()

Object constructor.

encode($what)

From structure $what generates XML::LibXML::Document DOM. Call ->toString to get XML string. For more actions see XML::LibXML.

decode($xmlstring)

Takes $xmlstring and converts to data structure.

AUTHOR

Jozef Kutej, <jkutej at cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

The following people have contributed to the Sys::Path by committing their code, sending patches, reporting bugs, asking questions, suggesting useful advice, nitpicking, chatting on IRC or commenting on my blog (in no particular order):

Lars Dɪᴇᴄᴋᴏᴡ 迪拉斯
Emmanuel Rodriguez

TODO

* int, float encoding ? (string enough?)
* XSD
* anyone else has an idea?
* what to do with blessed? do the same as JSON::XS does?

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-data-asxml at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Data-asXML. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Data::asXML

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Jozef Kutej.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.