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.IX Title "XML::Easy 3pm"
.TH XML::Easy 3pm "2014-08-15" "perl v5.20.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
XML::Easy \- XML processing with a clean interface
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 3
\&        use XML::Easy::NodeBasics qw(xml_element xml_e_attribute);
\&        use XML::Easy::Text
\&                qw(xml10_read_document xml10_write_document);
\&
\&        $element = xml_element("a", { href => "there" }, "there");
\&        $element = xml10_read_document(\*(Aq<a href="there">there</a>\*(Aq);
\&
\&        $href = xml_e_attribute($element, "href");
\&        $text = xml10_write_document($element);
\&
\&        # see specific modules for many more functions
.Ve
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
XML::Easy is a collection of modules relating to the processing,
parsing, and serialisation of \s-1XML\s0 data.  It is oriented towards the
use of \s-1XML\s0 to represent data for interchange purposes, rather than the
use of \s-1XML\s0 as markup of principally textual data.  It does not perform
any schema processing, and does not interpret DTDs or any other kind
of schema.  It adheres strictly to the \s-1XML\s0 specification, in all its
awkward details, except for the aforementioned DTDs.
.PP
XML::Easy strictly separates the in-program manipulation of \s-1XML\s0
data from the processing of the textual form of \s-1XML. \s0 This shields
the \s-1XML\s0 user from the inconvenient and obscure aspects of \s-1XML\s0 syntax.
\&\s-1XML\s0 data nodes are mainly processed in a clean functional style, using
the XML::Easy::NodeBasics module.  In the (very likely) event that
an application requires some more purpose-specific \s-1XML\s0 data processing
facilities, they are readily built on top of XML::Easy::NodeBasics,
retaining the abstraction from textual \s-1XML.\s0
.PP
When \s-1XML\s0 must be handled in textual form, for input and output,
the XML::Easy::Text module supplies a parser and a serialiser.
The interfaces here, too, are functional in nature.
.PP
There are other modules for some ancillary aspects of \s-1XML\s0 processing.
.SH "MODULES"
.IX Header "MODULES"
The modules in the XML::Easy distribution are:
.IP "XML::Easy" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy"
This document.  For historical reasons, this can also be loaded as
a module, and (though it is deprecated) some of the functions from
XML::Easy::Text can be imported from here.
.IP "XML::Easy::Classify" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::Classify"
This module provides various type-testing functions, relating to data
types used in the XML::Easy ensemble.  These are mainly intended to be
used to enforce validity of data being processed by XML-related functions.
.IP "XML::Easy::Content" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::Content"
.PD 0
.IP "XML::Easy::Element" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::Element"
.PD
These are classes used to represent \s-1XML\s0 data for general manipulation.
Objects of these classes hold the meaningful content of the data,
independent of textual representation.  The data in these nodes cannot
be modified: different data requires new nodes.
.IP "XML::Easy::NodeBasics" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::NodeBasics"
This module supplies functions concerned with the creation, examination,
and other manipulation of \s-1XML\s0 data nodes (content chunks and elements).
The nodes are dumb data objects, best manipulated using plain functions
such as the ones in this module.
.IP "XML::Easy::Syntax" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::Syntax"
This module supplies Perl regular expressions describing the grammar of 
\&\s-1XML 1.0. \s0 This is intended to support doing irregular things with \s-1XML,\s0
rather than for normal parsing.
.IP "XML::Easy::Text" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::Text"
This module supplies functions that parse and serialise \s-1XML\s0 data as text
according to the \s-1XML 1.0\s0 specification.
.SH "OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS"
.IX Header "OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS"
Other \s-1CPAN\s0 distributions that work with XML::Easy are:
.IP "Test::XML::Easy" 4
.IX Item "Test::XML::Easy"
A testing tool, providing Test::More\-style functions that check
whether \s-1XML\s0 nodes are as expected.
.IP "XML::Easy::ProceduralWriter" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::ProceduralWriter"
Provides a way to construct \s-1XML\s0 data nodes by procedural code.
Some programmers will find this more comfortable than the functional
style offered by XML::Easy::NodeBasics.
.IP "XML::Easy::SimpleSchemaUtil" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::SimpleSchemaUtil"
Helps to parse things that are encoded in \s-1XML\s0 in common ways.
.ie n .IP """XML::Easy::Transform::""" 4
.el .IP "\f(CWXML::Easy::Transform::\fR" 4
.IX Item "XML::Easy::Transform::"
This namespace exists to contain modules that perform transformations
on \s-1XML\s0 documents, or parts thereof, in the form of XML::Easy::Element
and XML::Easy::Content nodes.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
XML::Easy::Classify,
XML::Easy::NodeBasics,
XML::Easy::Syntax,
XML::Easy::Text,
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC\-xml/>
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (C) 2008, 2009 PhotoBox Ltd
.PP
Copyright (C) 2009, 2010, 2011 Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>
.SH "LICENSE"
.IX Header "LICENSE"
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.