NAME

       Template::XML - XML plugins for the Template Toolkit

SYNOPSIS

           [% USE XML;

              dom    = XML.dom('foo.xml');
              xpath  = XML.xpath('bar.xml');
              simple = XML.simple('baz.xml');
              rss    = XML.simple('news.rdf');
           %]

DESCRIPTION

       The Template-XML distribution provides a number of Template Toolkit plugin modules for working with XML.

       The Template::Plugin::XML module is a front-end to the various other XML plugin modules.  Through this
       you can access XML files and directories of XML files via the Template::Plugin::XML::File and
       Template::Plugin::XML::Directory modules (which subclass from the Template::Plugin::File and
       Template::Plugin::Directory modules respectively).  You can then create a Document Object Model (DOM)
       from an XML file (Template::Plugin::XML::DOM), examine it using XPath queries
       (Template::Plugin::XML::XPath), turn it into a Perl data structure (Template::Plugin::XML::Simple) or
       parse it as an RSS (RDF Site Summary) file.

       The basic XML plugins were distributed as part of the Template Toolkit until version 2.15 released in May
       2006.  At this time they were extracted into this separate Template-XML distribution and an alpha version
       of this Template::Plugin::XML front-end module was added.

AUTHORS

       Andy Wardley wrote the Template Toolkit plugin modules, with assistance from Simon Matthews in the case
       of the XML::DOM plugin.  Matt Sergeant wrote the XML::XPath module.  Enno Derksen and Clark Cooper wrote
       the XML::DOM module.  Jonathan Eisenzopf wrote the XML::RSS module.  Grant McLean wrote the XML::Simple
       module.  Clark Cooper and Larry Wall wrote the XML::Parser module.  James Clark wrote the expat library.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1996-2006 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.

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

SEE ALSO

       Template, Template::Plugins, Template::Plugin::XML, Template::Plugin::XML::DOM,
       Template::Plugin::XML::RSS, Template::Plugin::XML::Simple, Template::Plugin::XML::XPath