Perl and Xml

Perl & XML is aimed at Perl programmers who need to work with XML documents and data. This book gives a complete, comprehensive tour of the landscape of Perl and XML, making sense of the myriad of modules, terminology, and techniques. The last two chapters of Perl and XML give complete examples of XML applications, pulling together all the tools at your disposal.

Jason McIntosh lives and works in and around Boston. He has co-authored two O'Reilly books, Mac OS X in a Nutshell and Perl & XML, and writes occasional columns and weblog entries for the O'Reilly Network. His homepage is at http://www.jmac.org.

Preface

ix

Perl and XML

1

(10)

Why Use Perl with XML?

1

(1)

XML Is Simple with XML::Simple

2

(4)

XML Processors

6

(1)

A Myriad of Modules

6

(1)

Keep in Mind

7

(2)

XML Gotchas

9

(2)

An XML Recap

11

(23)

A Brief History of XML

11

(4)

Markup, Elements, and Structure

15

(2)

Namespaces

17

(2)

Spacing

19

(1)

Entities

19

(3)

Unicode, Character Sets, and Encodings

22

(1)

The XML Declaration

23

(1)

Processing Instructions and Other Markup

23

(2)

Free-Form XML and Well-Formed Documents

25

(1)

Declaring Elements and Attributes

26

(1)

Schemas

27

(2)

Transformations

29

(5)

XML Basics: Reading and Writing

34

(36)

XML Parsers

34

(8)

XML::Parser

42

(5)

Stream-Based Versus Tree-Based Processing

47

(2)

Putting Parsers to Work

49

(3)

XML::LibXML

52

(2)

XML::XPath

54

(2)

Document Validation

56

(3)

XML::Writer

59

(4)

Character Sets and Encodings

63

(7)

Event Streams

70

(12)

Working with Streams

70

(1)

Events and Handlers

71

(1)

The Parser as Commodity

72

(1)

Stream Applications

73

(1)

XML::PYX

74

(2)

XML::Parser

76

(6)

SAX

82

(32)

SAX Event Handlers

83

(6)

DTD Handlers

89

(3)

External Entity Resolution

92

(1)

Drivers for Non-XML Sources

93

(3)

A Handler Base Class

96

(2)

XML::Handler::YAWriter as a Base Handler Class

98

(1)

XML::SAX: The Second Generation

98

(16)

Tree Processing

114

(13)

XML Trees

114

(1)

XML::Simple

115

(3)

XML::Parser's Tree Mode

118

(1)

XML::Simple Object

119

(3)

XML::TreeBuilder

122

(2)

XML::Grove

124

(3)

DOM

127

(15)

DOM and Perl

127

(1)

DOM Class Interface Reference

128

(8)

XML::DOM

136

(3)

XML::LibXML

139

(3)

Beyond Trees: XPath, XSLT, and More

142

(16)

Tree Climbers

142

(3)

XPath

145

(8)

XSLT

153

(2)

Optimized Tree Processing

155

(3)

RSS, SOAP, and Other XML Applications

158

(16)

XML Modules

158

(1)

XML::RSS

159

(8)

XML Programming Tools

167

(3)

SOAP::Lite

170

(4)

Coding Strategies

174

(21)

Perl and XML Namespaces

174

(3)

Subclassing

177

(6)

Converting XML to HTML with XSLT

183

(8)

A Comics Index

191

(4)

Index

195

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