Template::Plugin::XML::XPath (3pm)

    # 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 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 \s-1XML\s0, 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 \*(L"view\*(R", followed by the end tag.

This plugin module was written by Andy Wardley.

The XML::XPath module is by Matt Sergeant.

Copyright (C) 1996-2006 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

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