NAME
XML::Quote - XML quote/dequote functions
SYNOPSIS
use strict;
use XML::Quote qw(:all);
my $str=q{666 > 444 & "apple" < 'earth'};
print xml_quote($str),"\n";
# 666 > 444 & "apple" < 'earth'
my $str2=q{666 > 444 & "apple" < 'earth'};
print xml_dequote($str2),"\n";
# 666 > 444 & "apple" < 'earth'
my $str3=q{666 > 444 & "apple" < 'earth'};
print xml_quote_min($str3),"\n";
# 666 > 444 & "apple" < 'earth'DESCRIPTION
This module provides functions to quote/dequote strings in "xml"-way.
All functions are written in XS and are very fast; they correctly process utf8, tied, overloaded variables and all the rest of perl "magic".
FUNCTIONS
- $quoted = xml_quote($str);
-
This function replaces all occurences of symbols '&', '"', ''', '>', '<' to '&', '"', ''', '>', '<' respectively.
Returns quoted string or undef if $str is undef.
- $dequoted = xml_dequote($str);
-
This function replaces all occurences of '&', '"', ''', '>', '<' to '&', '"', ''', '>', '<' respectively. All other entities (for example ) will not be touched.
Returns dequoted string or undef if $str is undef.
- $quoted = xml_quote_min($str);
-
This function replaces all occurences of symbols '&', '"', '<' to '&', '"', '<' respectively. Symbols ''' and '>' are not replaced.
Returns quoted string or undef if $str is undef.
EXPORT
xml_quote(), xml_dequote() are exported as default.
PERFORMANCE
You can use t/benchmark.pl to test the perfomance. Here is the result on my P4 box.
Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of perl quote, xs quote...
perl quote: 108 wallclock secs (88.08 usr + 0.01 sys = 88.09 CPU) @ 11351.64/s (n=1000000)
xs quote: 20 wallclock secs (16.78 usr + 0.00 sys = 16.78 CPU) @ 59591.20/s (n=1000000)
Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of perl dequote, xs dequote...
perl dequote: 106 wallclock secs (85.22 usr + 0.09 sys = 85.31 CPU) @ 11721.54/s (n=1000000)
xs dequote: 19 wallclock secs (15.92 usr + 0.02 sys = 15.94 CPU) @ 62743.13/s (n=1000000)AUTHOR
Sergey Skvortsov <skv@protey.ru>
SEE ALSO
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml, perlre
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2003 Sergey Skvortsov <skv@protey.ru>. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.