NAME

       xmlsort - sorts 'records' in XML files

SYNOPSIS

         xmlsort -r=<recordname> [ <other options> ] [ <filename> ]

         Options:
          -r <name>  name of the elements to be sorted
          -k <keys>  child nodes to be used as sort keys
          -i         ignore case when sorting
          -s         normalise whitespace when comparing sort keys
          -t <dir>   buffer records to named directory rather than in memory
          -m <bytes> set memory chunk size for disk buffering
          -h         help - display the full documentation

         Example:
          xmlsort -r 'person' -k 'lastname;firstname' -i -s in.xml >out.xml

DESCRIPTION

       This script takes an XML document either on STDIN or from a named file and writes a sorted version of the
       file to STDOUT.  The "-r" option should be used to identify 'records' in the document - the bits you want
       sorted.  Elements before and after the records will be unaffected by the sort.

OPTIONS

       Here is a brief summary of the command line options (and the XML::Filter::Sort options which they
       correspond to).  For more details see XML::Filter::Sort.

       -r <recordname> (Record)
           The name of the elements to be sorted.  This can be a simple element name like 'person' or a pathname
           like 'employees/person' (only person elements contained directly within an employees element).

       -k <keys> (Keys)
           Semicolon separated list of elements (or attributes) within a record which should be used as sort
           keys.  Each key can optionally be followed by 'alpha' or 'num' to indicate alphanumeric of numeric
           sorting and 'asc' or 'desc' for ascending or descending order (eg: -k 'lastname;firstname;age,n,d').

       -i (IgnoreCase)
           This option makes sort comparisons case insensitive.

       -s (NormaliseKeySpace)
           By default all whitespace in the sort key elements is considered significant.  Specifying -s will
           case leading and trailing whitespace to be stripped and internal whitespace runs to be collapsed to a
           single space.

       -t <directory> (TempDir)
           When sorting large documents, it may be prudent to use disk buffering rather than memory buffering.
           This option allows you to specify where temporary files should be written.

       -m <bytes> (MaxMem)
           If you use the -t option to enable disk buffering, records will be collected in memory in 'chunks' of
           up to about 10 megabytes before being sorted and spooled to temporary files.  This option allows you
           to specify a larger chunk size.  A suffix of K or M indicates kilobytes or megabytes respectively.

SEE ALSO

       This script uses the following modules:

         XML::SAX::ParserFactory
         XML::Filter::Sort
         XML::SAX::Writer

AUTHOR

       Grant McLean <grantm@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2002 Grant McLean.  All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
       redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.