NAME

       stag-splitter - splits a stag file into multiple files

SYNOPSIS

         stag-splitter -split person -name social_security_no file.xml

DESCRIPTION

       Splits a file using a user specified parser (default xml) around a specified split node,
       naming each file according to the name argument

       the files will be named anonymously, unless the '-name' switch is specified; this will use
       the value of the specified element as the filename

       eg; if we have

         <top>
           <a>
             <b>foo</b>
             <c>yah</c>
             <d>
               <e>xxx</e>
             </d>
           </a>
           <a>
             <b>bar</b>
             <d>
               <e>wibble</e>
             </d>
           </a>
         </top>

       if we run

         stag-splitter -split a -name b

       it will generate two files, "foo.xml" and "bar.xml"

       input format can be 'xml', 'sxpr' or 'itext' - if this is left blank the format will be
       guessed from the file suffix

       the output format defaults to the same as the input format, but another can be chosen.

       files go in the current directory, but this can be overridden with the '-dir' switch

USAGE

          stag-splitter [-split <ELEMENT-NAME>] [-name <ELEMENT-NAME>] [-dir <DIR>] [-format <INPUT-FORMAT>] [-outformat <OUTPUT-FORMAT>] <FILENAMES>

       -p|parser FORMAT
           FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext, or the name of a perl module

           xml assumed as default

       -w|writer FORMAT
           FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext, or the name of a perl module

       -split|s NODE
           node to split on

       -name|n NODE
           field/element to use when naming files

           will use surrogate IDs if this argument not specified

       -dir|d DIR
           write files to this directory