Template::Plugin::XML 2.16 review

Template::Plugin::XML is a XML plugin for the Template Toolkit. SYNOPSIS [% USE XML; dom = XML.dom('foo.xml');

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Template::Plugin::XML is a XML plugin for the Template Toolkit.

SYNOPSIS

[% USE XML;
dom = XML.dom('foo.xml');
xpath = XML.xpath('bar.xml');
simple = XML.simple('baz.xml');
rss = XML.simple('news.rdf');
%]

[% USE XML(file='foo.xml');
dom = XML.dom
xpath = XML.xpath
# ...etc...
%]

[% USE XML(dir='/path/to/xml');
file = XML.file('foo.xml' );
dom = file.dom
xpath = file.xpath
# ...etc...
%]

The Template-XML distribution provides a number of Template Toolkit plugin modules for working with XML.

The Template::Plugin::XML module is a front-end to the various other XML plugin modules. Through this you can access XML files and directories of XML files via the Template::Plugin::XML::File and Template::Plugin::XML::Directory modules (which subclass from the Template::Plugin::File and Template::Plugin::Directory modules respectively). You can then create a Document Object Model (DOM) from an XML file (Template::Plugin::XML::DOM), examine it using XPath queries (Template::Plugin::XML::XPath), turn it into a Perl data structure (Template::Plugin::XML::Simple) or parse it as an RSS (RDF Site Summary) file.

The basic XML plugins were distributed as part of the Template Toolkit until version 2.15 released in May 2006. At this time they were extracted into this separate Template-XML distribution and an alpha version of this Template::Plugin::XML front-end module was added.
The Template::Plugin::XML module is still in development and not guaranteed to work correctly yet. However, all the other XML plugins are more-or-less exactly as they were in TT version 2.14 and should work as normal.

For general information on the Template Toolkit see the documentation for the Template module or http://template-toolkit.org. For information on using plugins, see Template::Plugins and "USE" in Template::Manual::Directives. For further information on XML, see http://xml.com/.

Requirements:
Perl