XML::Mini - Perl implementation of the XML::Mini XML create/parse interface.

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LICENSE
XML::Mini::Element module, part of the XML::Mini XML parser/generator package.
Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Patrick Deegan
All rights reserved

XML::Mini is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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XML::Mini is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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Class Methods

escapeEntitesTOENCODE
       This method returns ToENCODE with HTML sensitive values (eg '<', '>', '"', etc) HTML encoded.

   LogMESSAGE
       Logs the message to STDERR

   ErrorMESSAGE
       Logs MESSAGE and exits the program, calling exit()ignoreDeepRecursionWarning
       XML::Mini uses deep recursion on big XML docs, this is normal.  But the warnings are a pain.
       $XML::Mini::IgnoreDeepRecursionWarnings is set to TRUE by default, and ignoreDeepRecursionWarning() is
       called by XML::Mini::Document if it is set.  To bypass this behavior,

               use XML::Mini;

               $XML::Mini::IgnoreDeepRecursionWarnings = 0;

               use XML::Mini::Document;

               # ...

Description

XML::Mini is a set of Perl classes that allow you to access XML data and create valid XML output with a
tree-based hierarchy of elements. The MiniXML API has both Perl and PHP implementations.

It provides an easy, object-oriented interface for manipulating XML documents and their elements. It is
currently being used to send requests and understand responses from remote servers in Perl or PHP
applications. An XML::Mini based parser is now being tested within the RPC::XML framework.

XML::Mini does not require any external libraries or modules and is pure Perl. If available, XML::Mini
will use the Text::Balanced module in order to escape limitations of the regex-only approach (eg "cross-
nested" tag parsing).

The Mini.pm module includes a number of variables you may use to tweak XML::Mini's behavior. These
include:

$XML::Mini::AutoEscapeEntities - when greater than 0, the values set for nodes are automatically escaped,
thus $element->text('4 is > 3') will set the contents of the appended node to '4 is &gt; 3'. Default
setting is 1.

$XML::Mini::IgnoreWhitespaces - when greater than 0, extraneous whitespaces will be ignored (maily useful
when parsing). Thus <mytag> Hello There </mytag> will be parsed as containing a text node
with contents 'Hello There' instead of ' Hello There '. Default setting is 1.

$XML::Mini::CaseSensitive - when greater than 0, element names are treated as case sensitive. Thus,
$element->getElement('subelement') and $element->getElement('SubElement') will be equivalent. Defaults
to 0.

Name

       XML::Mini - Perl implementation of the XML::Mini XML create/parse interface.

Synopsis

               use XML::Mini::Document;

               use Data::Dumper;

               ###### PARSING XML #######

               # create a new object
               my $xmlDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new();

               # init the doc from an XML string
               $xmlDoc->parse($XMLString);

               # You may use the toHash() method to automatically
               # convert the XML into a hash reference
               my $xmlHash = $xmlDoc->toHash();

               print Dumper($xmlHash);

               # You can also manipulate the elements like directly, like this:

               # Fetch the ROOT element for the document
               # (an instance of XML::Mini::Element)
               my $xmlRoot = $xmlDoc->getRoot();

               # play with the element and its children
               # ...
               my $topLevelChildren = $xmlRoot->getAllChildren();

               foreach my $childElement (@{$topLevelChildren})
               {
                       # ...
               }

               ###### CREATING XML #######

               # Create a new document from scratch

               my $newDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new();

               # This can be done easily by using a hash:
               my $h = {
                'spy'  => {
                       'id'    => '007',
                       'type'  => 'SuperSpy',
                       'name'  => 'James Bond',
                       'email' => 'mi5@london.uk',
                       'address'       => 'Wherever he is needed most',
                       },
               };

               $newDoc->fromHash($h);

               # Or new XML can also be created by manipulating
               #elements directly:

               my $newDocRoot = $newDoc->getRoot();

               # create the <? xml ?> header
               my $xmlHeader = $newDocRoot->header('xml');
               # add the version
               $xmlHeader->attribute('version', '1.0');

               my $person = $newDocRoot->createChild('person');

               my $name = $person->createChild('name');
               $name->createChild('first')->text('John');
               $name->createChild('last')->text('Doe');

               my $eyes = $person->createChild('eyes');
               $eyes->attribute('color', 'blue');
               $eyes->attribute('number', 2);

               # output the document
               print $newDoc->toString();

       This example would output :

        <?xml version="1.0"?>
         <person>
          <name>
           <first>
            John
           </first>
           <last>
            Doe
           </last>
         </name>
         <eyes color="blue" number="2" />
         </person>