NAME XML::LibXML::Tools - An API for easy XML::LibXML DOM manipulation SYNOPSIS use XML::LibXML::Tools; my $lxt = XML::LibXML::Tools->new(); # set croakOnError => 0 for all new objects. $XML::LibXML::Tools::croak = 0; my $dom = $lxt->complex2Dom( data => [ document => [ node => [ deeper_content => [ $tools->attribute("attribute", "value"), "deep content" ], ], node => [ "content" ] ] ] ); # change content $tools->domUpdate( xpath => "/document/node", data => [ deeper_content => "Other content" ]); # add comment $tools->domAdd( xpath => "/document", data => [ $tools->comment("blaaa") ]); # add a nodeset. $tools->domAdd( xpath => "/document/node[2]", location => AFTER, data => [ $dom->findnodes("/document/node[1]") ]); # add a DOM $tools->domAdd ( xpath => "/document/node[1]", location => BEFORE, data => [ node => [ $otherDom ] ] ); # delete some nodes $tools->domDelete( xpath => "/document", deleteXPath => "./node[1]" ); DESCRIPTION Hands an interface for merging, updating, adding and deleting a XML::LibXML::Document in an easy fashion. Takes care of encoding, etc. CONSTANTS Constants are exported for your ease. BEFORE => "before"; AFTER => "after"; TO => "to"; All these constants can be used for the location parameter METHODS Methods are all accessors, they are show with their default value. encoding ( "ISO-8859-1" ) Default input encoding. Overwritten by the encoding parameter for each function. toEncoding ( "UTF-8" ) Default to-encoding Never overwritten. defaultLocation ( TO ) Default adding location. objectIconv ( bless({},"Text::Iconv") ) Not really relevant, but availabe: Text::Iconv->new(encoding, toEncoding) objectDom ( "" ) Filled by complex2Dom if not yet defined, or you. Used so that you can skip the dom-parameter for each function which is meant to work at this DOM. storeDom( 1 ) If set to 0 complex2Dom doesn't fill the objectDom so you can manipulate 'externals' DOMs without to much overhead. error ( undef ) Set to 1 by addError errorMsg ( undef ) Holds the message stack croakOnError ( 1 ) If an error occurs, croak (errorMsg) showPath ( 0 ) warns the names of the functions called. Not very usefull unless you are an expert FUNCTION PARAMETERS Most of these functions operate parameter based, eg: $lxt->domAdd(node => $node, dom => $dom, data => $ref ) Most of these functions call upon each other. They always pass their parameters. dom => $dom The L you want to perform your operation on. If ommited objectDom is tried. node => $dom->node The node on which you wish to perform your operation. xpath => "/path/to/node" If the node is ommited, uses this xpath-statement to get to a node. data => $ref [ element => "of surprise" ] OR [ $dom ] OR [ $nodelist ] OR [ [ element => [ $nodelist ], element => [ $dom ], element => [ attribute( "name", "value" ), "content" ] ] The data for the operation. Can be an intrigate combination of arrays DOMs and NodeLists encoding => "UTF-7" The from-encoding the be used in this operation noConvert => 0, 1 Do not convert the data from one encoding to the other for this operation. !! USE AT OWN RISK !! location => TO location => BEFORE location => AFTER The location for adding. TO : Add to the selected node BEFORE : insert before the selected node AFTER : insert after the selected node deleteXPath, delete Used in domDelete. Delete everything that complies to deleteXPath from the selected node. delete is shorthand showpath Set the showpath for this operation. depth Used internally for showPath. Please do not meddle with it unless your an expert. FUNCTIONS For the sake of easy reading '*name' is a parameter. All these functions return undef once an error has been raised. $dom = complex2Dom ( data => $ref ) DESCRIPTION Turns an array reference into a L, taking array->[0] as the rootname. calls array2Dom for this purpose. array2Dom ( %params ) DESCRIPTION Turns *data into a L (or alike) so that it can be attached to the *dom or *node at a later point in time. Expert use only. REQUIRED PARAMETERS dom, node, data NOTE *xpath is ignored here *node is intrepreted as a parentNode. domUpdate ( %params ) DESCRIPTION Update the selected *node with *data by replacing or adding nodes along the way. REQUIRED PARAMETERS dom, node OR xpath, data domAdd ( %params ) DESCRIPTION Add *data to *node at *location REQUIRED PARAMETERS dom, node OR xpath, data domDelete ( %params ) DESCRIPTION Delete everything from *deleteXPath from *node. Because this is XPath driven there is no way to remove comments - still looking into a solution for that. REQUIRED PARAMETERS dom, node OR xpath, data, deleteXPath analyseXpath ( "/newlsetter[1]/section[2]/parot[2]" ) returns 'parot', 2, '/newlsetter[1]/section[2]' convert ( %params ) DESCRIPTION converts *data using L. Is influenced by *encoding and *noConvert attribute ( "name", "value" ) returns the special attribute notation for arrays which need to be transformed to DOMs comment ( "comment" ) returns the special comment notation for arrays which need to be transformed to DOMs Puts a space before and after the comment it is not there, since yours truly beliefs that is more beatifull. addError ( $message ) Adds $message to the message stack. Sets error() to 1 resetError () Resets the error stack and flag. CHANGES 0.71 - released 0.72 - minor documentation changes. (it broke on CPAN ... :( ) 0.80 - made sure this also works with a 'broken' Text::Iconv SEE ALSO XML::LibXML KNOWN ISSUES - Unfixed checking problem. You might see something like: complex2Dom: To complex! ... FIX : Surround the stuff in *data with extra [ ]. AUTHOR INFORMATION Originally Written by Robert Bakker as an Exporter. Then re-written by Hartog de Mik to: beautify code. chop up into functions. Then finaly re-written by Hartog de Mik into the current OO implementation