Provided by: libxml-tokeparser-perl_0.05-5_all 
NAME
XML::TokeParser - Simplified interface to XML::Parser
SYNOPSIS
use XML::TokeParser;
#
#parse from file
my $p = XML::TokeParser->new('file.xml')
#
#parse from open handle
open IN, 'file.xml' or die $!;
my $p = XML::TokeParser->new( \*IN, Noempty => 1 );
#
#parse literal text
my $text = '<tag xmlns="http://www.omsdev.com">text</tag>';
my $p = XML::TokeParser->new( \$text, Namespaces => 1 );
#
#read next token
my $token = $p->get_token();
#
#skip to <title> and read text
$p->get_tag('title');
$p->get_text();
#
#read text of next <para>, ignoring any internal markup
$p->get_tag('para');
$p->get_trimmed_text('/para');
#
#process <para> if interesting text
$t = $p->get_tag('para');
$p->begin_saving($t);
if ( $p->get_trimmed_text('/para') =~ /interesting stuff/ ) {
$p->restore_saved();
process_para($p);
}
DESCRIPTION
XML::TokeParser provides a procedural ("pull mode") interface to XML::Parser in much the
same way that Gisle Aas' HTML::TokeParser provides a procedural interface to HTML::Parser.
XML::TokeParser splits its XML input up into "tokens," each corresponding to an
XML::Parser event.
A token is a bless'd reference to an array whose first element is an event-type string and
whose last element is the literal text of the XML input that generated the event, with
intermediate elements varying according to the event type.
Each token is an object of type XML::TokeParser::Token. Read "XML::TokeParser::Token" to
learn what methods are available for inspecting the token, and retrieving data from it.
METHODS
$p = XML::TokeParser->new($input, [options])
Creates a new parser, specifying the input source and any options. If $input is a
string, it is the name of the file to parse. If $input is a reference to a string,
that string is the actual text to parse. If $input is a reference to a typeglob or an
IO::Handle object corresponding to an open file or socket, the text read from the
handle will be parsed.
Options are name=>value pairs and can be any of the following:
Namespaces
If set to a true value, namespace processing is enabled.
ParseParamEnt
This option is passed on to the underlying XML::Parser object; see that module's
documentation for details.
Noempty
If set to a true value, text tokens consisting of only whitespace (such as those
created by indentation and line breaks in between tags) will be ignored.
Latin
If set to a true value, all text other than the literal text elements of tokens
will be translated into the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character encoding rather than
the normal UTF-8 encoding.
Catalog
The value is the URI of a catalog file used to resolve PUBLIC and SYSTEM
identifiers. See XML::Catalog for details.
$token = $p->get_token()
Returns the next token, as an array reference, from the input. Returns undef if there
are no remaining tokens.
$p->unget_token($token,...)
Pushes tokens back so they will be re-read. Useful if you've read one or more tokens
too far. Correctly handles "partial" tokens returned by get_tag().
$token = $p->get_tag( [$token] )
If no argument given, skips tokens until the next start tag or end tag token. If an
argument is given, skips tokens until the start tag or end tag (if the argument begins
with '/') for the named element. The returned token does not include an event type
code; its first element is the element name, prefixed by a '/' if the token is for an
end tag.
$text = $p->get_text( [$token] )
If no argument given, returns the text at the current position, or an empty string if
the next token is not a 'T' token. If an argument is given, gathers up all text
between the current position and the specified start or end tag, stripping out any
intervening tags (much like the way a typical Web browser deals with unknown tags).
$text = $p->get_trimmed_text( [$token] )
Like get_text(), but deletes any leading or trailing whitespaces and collapses
multiple whitespace (including newlines) into single spaces.
$p->begin_saving( [$token] )
Causes subsequent calls to get_token(), get_tag(), get_text(), and get_trimmed_text()
to save the returned tokens. In conjunction with restore_saved(), allows you to "back
up" within a token stream. If an argument is supplied, it is placed at the beginning
of the list of saved tokens (useful because you often won't know you want to begin
saving until you've already read the first token you want saved).
$p->restore_saved()
Pushes all the tokens saved by begin_saving() back onto the token stream. Stops
saving tokens. To cancel saving without backing up, call begin_saving() and
restore_saved() in succession.
XML::TokeParser::Token
A token is a blessed array reference, that you acquire using "$p->get_token" or
"$p->get_tag", and that might look like:
["S", $tag, $attr, $attrseq, $raw]
["E", $tag, $raw]
["T", $text, $raw]
["C", $text, $raw]
["PI", $target, $data, $raw]
If you don't like remembering array indices (you're a real programmer), you may access the
attributes of a token like:
"$t->tag", "$t->attr", "$t->attrseq", "$t->raw", "$t->text", "$t->target", "$t->data".
****Please note that this may change in the future, where as there will be 4 token types,
XML::TokeParser::Token::StartTag ....
What kind of token is it?
To find out, inspect your token using any of these is_* methods (1 == true, 0 == false,
d'oh):
is_text
is_comment
is_pi which is short for is_process_instruction
is_start_tag
is_end_tag
is_tag
What's that token made of? To retrieve data from your token, use any of the following
methods, depending on the kind of token you have:
target
only for process instructions
data
only for process instructions
raw for all tokens
attr
only for start tags, returns a hashref ( "print "#link ", ""$t->attr""->{href}" ).
my $attrseq = $t->attrseq
only for start tags, returns an array ref of the keys found in "$t->attr" in the order
they originally appeared in.
my $tagname = $t->tag
only for tags ( "print "opening ", ""$t->tag"" if ""$t->is_start_tag" ).
my $text = $token->text
only for tokens of type text and comment
Here's more detailed info about the tokens.
Start tag
The token has five elements: 'S', the element's name, a reference to a hash of
attribute values keyed by attribute names, a reference to an array of attribute names
in the order in which they appeared in the tag, and the literal text.
End tag
The token has three elements: 'E', the element's name, and the literal text.
Character data (text)
The token has three elements: 'T', the parsed text, and the literal text. All
contiguous runs of text are gathered into single tokens; there will never be two 'T'
tokens in a row.
Comment
The token has three elements: 'C', the parsed text of the comment, and the literal
text.
Processing instruction
The token has four elements: 'PI', the target, the data, and the literal text.
The literal text includes any markup delimiters (pointy brackets, <![CDATA[, etc.), entity
references, and numeric character references and is in the XML document's original
character encoding. All other text is in UTF-8 (unless the Latin option is set, in which
case it's in ISO-8859-1) regardless of the original encoding, and all entity and character
references are expanded.
If the Namespaces option is set, element and attribute names are prefixed by their
(possibly empty) namespace URIs enclosed in curly brackets and xmlns:* attributes do not
appear in 'S' tokens.
DIFFERENCES FROM HTML::TokeParser
Uses a true XML parser rather than a modified HTML parser.
Text and comment tokens include extracted text as well as literal text.
PI tokens include target and data as well as literal text.
No tokens for declarations.
No "textify" hash.
unget_token correctly handles partial tokens returned by get_tag().
begin_saving() and restore_saved()
EXAMPLES
Example:
use XML::TokeParser;
use strict;
#
my $text = '<tag foo="bar" foy="floy"> some text <!--comment--></tag>';
my $p = XML::TokeParser->new( \$text );
#
print $/;
#
while( defined( my $t = $p->get_token() ) ){
local $\="\n";
print ' raw = ', $t->raw;
#
if( $t->tag ){
print ' tag = ', $t->tag;
#
if( $t->is_start_tag ) {
print ' attr = ', join ',', %{$t->attr};
print ' attrseq = ', join ',', @{$t->attrseq};
}
#
print 'is_tag ', $t->is_tag;
print 'is_start_tag ', $t->is_start_tag;
print 'is_end_tag ', $t->is_end_tag;
}
elsif( $t->is_pi ){
print ' target = ', $t->target;
print ' data = ', $t->data;
print 'is_pi ', $t->is_pi;
}
else {
print ' text = ', $t->text;
print 'is_text ', $t->is_text;
print 'is_comment ', $t->is_comment;
}
#
print $/;
}
__END__
Output:
raw = <tag foo="bar" foy="floy">
tag = tag
attr = foo,bar,foy,floy
attrseq = foo,foy
is_tag 1
is_start_tag 1
is_end_tag 0
raw = some text
text = some text
is_text 1
is_comment 0
raw = <!--comment-->
text = comment
is_text 0
is_comment 1
raw = </tag>
tag = tag
is_tag 1
is_start_tag 0
is_end_tag 1
BUGS
To report bugs, go to <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-TokeParser> or send
mail to <bug-XML-Tokeparser@rt.cpan.org>
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2003 D.H. aka PodMaster (current maintainer). Copyright (c) 2001 Eric
Bohlman (original author).
All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself. If you don't know what this means, visit
<http://perl.com/> or <http://cpan.org/>.
SEE ALSO
HTML::TokeParser, XML::Parser, XML::Catalog, XML::Smart, XML::Twig.