XML::PatAct::Amsterdam(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation
NAME
XML::PatAct::Amsterdam - An action module for simplistic style-sheets
SYNOPSIS
use XML::PatAct::Amsterdam;
my $patterns = [ PATTERN => { Before => 'before',
After => 'after' },
... ];
my $matcher = XML::PatAct::Amsterdam->new( I<OPTIONS> );
DESCRIPTION
XML::PatAct::Amsterdam is a PerlSAX handler for applying pattern-action
lists to XML parses or trees. XML::PatAct::Amsterdam applies a very
simple style sheet to an instance and outputs the result. Amsterdam gets
it's name from the Amsterdam SGML Parser (ASP) which inspired this
module.
CAUTION: Amsterdam is a very simple style module, you will run into it's
limitations quickly with even moderately complex XML instances, be aware
of and prepared to switch to more complete style modules.
New XML::PatAct::Amsterdam instances are creating by calling `new()'.
Parameters can be passed as a list of key, value pairs or a hash. A
Patterns and Matcher options are required. The following OPTIONS are
supported:
Patterns
The pattern-action list to apply. The list is an anonymous array of
pattern, action pairs. Each action in the list contains either or
both a Before and an After string to copy to the output before and
after processing an XML element. The Before and After strings may
contain attribute names enclosed in square brackets (`"["' NAME
`"]"'), these are replaced with the value of the attribute with that
name. The special NAME `"_element"' will be replaced with the
element's name.
Matcher
An instance of the pattern or query matching module.
Output
An IO::Handle or one of it's subclasses (such as IO::File), if this
parameter is not present and the AsString option is not used, the
module will write to standard output.
AsString
Return the generated output as a string from the `"parse()"' method
of the PerlSAX event generator.
AUTHOR
Ken MacLeod, ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us
SEE ALSO
perl(1)
``Using PatAct Modules'' and ``Creating PatAct Modules'' in libxml-perl.
perl v5.34.0 2003-10-21 XML::PatAct::Amsterdam(3)
libxml-perl 0.80.0 - Generated Sat Aug 20 10:52:52 CDT 2022