Perl and Xml

by Ray, Erik T.; McIntosh, Jason

• ISBN13: 9780596002053
• ISBN10: 059600205X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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