NAME

XML::Hash::XS - Simple and fast hash to XML conversion

SYNOPSIS

use XML::Hash::XS;

my $xmlstr = hash2xml \%hash;
hash2xml \%hash, output => $FH;

Or OOP way:

use XML::Hash::XS qw();

my $conv = XML::Hash::XS->new([<options>])
my $xmlstr = $conv->hash2xml(\%hash, [<options>]);

DESCRIPTION

This module implements simple hash to XML converter written in C using libxml2 library.

FUNCTIONS

hash2xml $hash, [ %options ]

$hash is reference to hash

hash2xml
    {
        node1 => 'value1',
        node2 => [ 'value21', { node22 => 'value22' } ],
        node3 => \'value3',
        node4 => sub { return 'value4' },
        node5 => sub { return { node51 => 'value51' } },
    },
    canonical => 1,
    indent    => 2,
;

will convert to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
  <node1>value1</node1>
  <node2>value21</node2>
  <node2>
    <node22>value22</node22>
  </node2>
  <node3>value3</node3>
  <node4>value4</node4>
  <node5>
    <node51>value51</node51>
  </node5>
</root>

and (use_attr=1):

hash2xml
    {
        node1 => 'value1',
        node2 => [ 'value21', { node22 => 'value22' } ],
        node3 => \'value3',
        node4 => sub { return 'value4' },
        node5 => sub { return { node51 => 'value51' } },
    },
    use_attr  => 1,
    canonical => 1,
    indent    => 2,
;

will convert to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root node1="value1" node3="value3" node4="value4">
  <node2>value21</node2>
  <node2 node22="value22"/>
  <node5 node51="value51"/>
</root>

Compose benchmark:

               Rate        Hash    Hash::LX      Simple Hash::XS(LX)    Hash::XS
Hash         43.7/s          --        -12%        -38%         -98%        -98%
Hash::LX     49.6/s         14%          --        -30%         -97%        -98%
Simple       70.9/s         62%         43%          --         -96%        -96%
Hash::XS(LX) 1786/s       3986%       3498%       2420%           --        -11%
Hash::XS     2000/s       4476%       3930%       2722%          12%          --

Benchmark was done on http://search.cpan.org/uploads.rdf

OPTIONS

root [ = 'root' ]

Root node name.

version [ = '1.0' ]

XML document version

encoding [ = 'utf-8' ]

XML output encoding

indent [ = 0 ]

if indent great than "0", XML output should be indented according to its hierarchic structure. This value determines the number of spaces.

if indent is "0", XML output will all be on one line.

output [ = undef ]

XML output method

if output is undefined, XML document dumped into string.

if output is FH, XML document writes directly to a filehandle or a stream.

canonical [ = 0 ]

if canonical is "1", converter will be write hashes sorted by key.

if canonical is "0", order of the element will be pseudo-randomly.

use_attr [ = 0 ]

if use_attr is "1", converter will be use the attributes.

if use_attr is "0", converter will be use tags only.

content [ = undef ]

if defined that the key name for the text content(used only if use_attr=1).

xml_decl [ = 1 ]

if xml_decl is "1", output will start with the XML declaration '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'.

if xml_decl is "0", XML declaration will not be output.

content [ = undef ]

if defined this options spicify a key name for storing text

method [ = 'NATIVE' ]

experimental support the conversion methods other libraries

if method is 'LX' then conversion result is the same as using XML::Hash::LX library

Note: for 'LX' method following options are available: encoding attr text trim cdata comm

AUTHOR

Yuriy Ustushenko, <<yoreek@yahoo.com>>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013 Yuriy Ustushenko

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