NAME

       Bio::SearchIO::XML::BlastHandler - XML Handler for NCBI Blast XML parsing.

SYNOPSIS

         # This is not to be used directly.

DESCRIPTION

       This is the XML handler for BLAST XML parsing. Currently it passes elements off to the
       event handler, which is ultimately responsible for Bio::Search object generation.

       This was recently split off from the original code for Bio::SearchIO::blastxml primarily
       for maintenance purposes.

DEPENDENCIES

       In addition to parts of the Bio:: hierarchy, this module uses:

        XML::SAX::Base

       which comes with the XML::SAX distribution.

FEEDBACK

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   Support
       Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list:

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       rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will
       be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description
       of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.

   Reporting Bugs
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AUTHOR - Jason Stajich, Chris Fields

       Email jason-at-bioperl.org Email cjfields-at-uiuc dot edu

APPENDIX

       The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods.  Internal methods are
       usually preceded with a _

   SAX methods
   start_document
        Title   : start_document
        Usage   : $parser->start_document;
        Function: SAX method to indicate starting to parse a new document
        Returns : none
        Args    : none

   end_document
        Title   : end_document
        Usage   : $parser->end_document;
        Function: SAX method to indicate finishing parsing a new document
        Returns : Bio::Search::Result::ResultI object
        Args    : none

   start_element
        Title   : start_element
        Usage   : $parser->start_element($data)
        Function: SAX method to indicate starting a new element
        Returns : none
        Args    : hash ref for data

   end_element
        Title   : end_element
        Usage   : $parser->end_element($data)
        Function: Signals finishing an element
        Returns : Bio::Search object dpending on what type of element
        Args    : hash ref for data

   characters
        Title   : characters
        Usage   : $parser->characters($data)
        Function: Signals new characters to be processed
        Returns : characters read
        Args    : hash ref with the key 'Data'