NAME

PICA::Writer::XML - PICA+ XML format serializer

DESCRIPTION

See PICA::Writer::Base for synopsis and details.

The counterpart of this module is PICA::Parser::XML.

METHODS

In addition to write, this writer also contains methods start and end to emit an XML header with start tag <collection> or an end tag, respectively. The start method is automatically called on construction, unless suppressed with option start => 0:

my $writer = PICA::Writer::XML->new( fh => $file, start => 0 );
$writer->write( $record ); # no <collection> start tag

The end method does not close the underlying file handle.