NAME

Template::Plugin::XML::XPath - Plugin interface to XML::XPath

SYNOPSIS

# load plugin and specify XML file to parse
[% USE xpath = XML.XPath(xmlfile) %]
[% USE xpath = XML.XPath(file => xmlfile) %]
[% USE xpath = XML.XPath(filename => xmlfile) %]

# load plugin and specify XML text to parse
[% USE xpath = XML.XPath(xmltext) %]
[% USE xpath = XML.XPath(xml => xmltext) %]
[% USE xpath = XML.XPath(text => xmltext) %]

# then call any XPath methods (see XML::XPath docs)
[% FOREACH page = xpath.findnodes('/html/body/page') %]
   [% page.getAttribute('title') %]
[% END %]

# define VIEW to present node(s)
[% VIEW repview notfound='xmlstring' %]
   # handler block for a <report>...</report> element
   [% BLOCK report %]
      [% item.content(view) %]
   [% END %]

   # handler block for a <section title="...">...</section> element
   [% BLOCK section %]
   <h1>[% item.getAttribute('title') %]</h1>
   [% item.content(view) %]
   [% END %]

   # default template block converts item to string representation
   [% BLOCK xmlstring; item.toString; END %]
   
   # block to generate simple text
   [% BLOCK text; item; END %]
[% END %]

# now present node (and children) via view
[% repview.print(page) %]

# or print node content via view
[% page.content(repview) %]

PRE-REQUISITES

This plugin requires that the XML::Parser and XML::XPath modules be installed. These are available from CPAN:

http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML

DESCRIPTION

This is a Template Toolkit plugin interfacing to the XML::XPath module.

All methods implemented by the XML::XPath modules are available. In addition, the XML::XPath::Node::Element module implements present($view) and content($view) methods method for seamless integration with Template Toolkit VIEWs. The XML::XPath::Node::Text module is also adorned with a present($view) method which presents itself via the view using the 'text' template.

AUTHORS

This plugin module was written by Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org>.

The XML::XPath module is by Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>.

VERSION

2.30, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.06, released on 07 November 2001.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Template::Plugin, XML::XPath, XML::Parser