Template::Plugin::XML::XPath - Plugin interface to XML::XPath |
Template::Plugin::XML::XPath - Plugin interface to XML::XPath
# load plugin and specify XML file to parse [% USE xpath = XML.XPath(xmlfile) %] [% USE xpath = XML.XPath(file => xmlfile) %] [% USE xpath = XML.XPath(filename => xmlfile) %]
# load plugin and specify XML text to parse [% USE xpath = XML.XPath(xmltext) %] [% USE xpath = XML.XPath(xml => xmltext) %] [% USE xpath = XML.XPath(text => xmltext) %]
# then call any XPath methods (see XML::XPath docs) [% FOREACH page = xpath.findnodes('/html/body/page') %] [% page.getAttribute('title') %] [% END %]
# define VIEW to present node(s) [% VIEW repview notfound='xmlstring' %] # handler block for a <report>...</report> element [% BLOCK report %] [% item.content(view) %] [% END %]
# handler block for a <section title="...">...</section> element [% BLOCK section %] <h1>[% item.getAttribute('title') | html %]</h1> [% item.content(view) %] [% END %]
# default template block passes tags through and renders # out the children recursivly [% BLOCK xmlstring; item.starttag; item.content(view); item.endtag; END %]
# block to generate simple text [% BLOCK text; item | html; END %] [% END %]
# now present node (and children) via view [% repview.print(page) %]
# or print node content via view [% page.content(repview) %]
This plugin requires that the XML::Parser and XML::XPath modules be installed. These are available from CPAN:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/XML
This is a Template Toolkit plugin interfacing to the XML::XPath module.
All methods implemented by the XML::XPath modules are available. In
addition, the XML::XPath::Node::Element module implements
present($view)
and content($view)
methods method for seamless
integration with Template Toolkit VIEWs. The XML::XPath::Node::Text
module is also adorned with a present($view)
method which presents
itself via the view using the 'text' template.
To aid the reconstruction of XML, methods starttag and endtag are added to XML::XPath::Node::Element which return the start and end tag for that element. This means that you can easily do:
[% item.starttag %][% item.content(view) %][% item.endtag %]
To render out the start tag, followed by the content rendered in the view ``view'', followed by the end tag.
This plugin module was written by Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org>.
The XML::XPath module is by Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>.
2.64, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.10, released on 24 July 2003.
Copyright (C) 1996-2003 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved. Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Template::Plugin, XML::XPath, XML::Parser
Template::Plugin::XML::XPath - Plugin interface to XML::XPath |