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NAME

       stag-flatten - turns stag data into a flat table

SYNOPSIS

         stag-flatten -c name -c person/name dept MyFile.xml

DESCRIPTION

       reads in a file in a stag format, and 'flattens' it to a tab-delimited table format. given
       this data:

         (company
          (dept
           (name "special-operations")
           (person
            (name "james-bond"))
           (person
            (name "fred"))))

       the above command will return a two column table

         special-operations      james-bond
         special-operations      fred

       If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the cartesian product
       will be calculated

USAGE

         stag-flatten [-p PARSER] [-c COLS] [-c COLS] NODE <file>

ARGUMENTS

       -p|parser FORMAT
           FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext

           xml assumed as default

       -c|column COL1,COL2,COL3,..
           the name of the columns/elements to write out

           this can be specified either with multiple -c arguments, or with a comma-seperated (no
           spaces) list of column (terminal node) names after a single -c

       -n|nest
           if set, then the output will be a compress repeating values into the same row; each
           cell in the table will be enclosed by {}, and will contain a comma-delimited set of
           values

SEE ALSO

       Data::Stag