minixql(3)
NAME
XML::miniXQL - Module for doing stream based XML queries
SYNOPSIS
use XML::miniXQL;
my $results = XML::miniXQL::queryXML({Style => 'Hash'},
$xml, @searches);
DESCRIPTION
This module provides a simplistic XQL like search engine
for XML files. It only supports a subset of XQL, because
it does all it's searching on streams, not on the document
as a whole (unlike XML::XQL). For this reason, only ances
tor relationships are supported, not sibling or child
relationships. XML::miniXQL also doesn't return nodes, it
only returns the value (text) found as the result of the
query. As a result, you can't use this module for node
manipulation, however it's faster than XML::XQL, so it can
be used on a web backend or some such environment. Xmerge
is provided as an example of usage.
The queries are passed in as an array of queries, and the
results passed out as either a simple tuple list (each
alternate value is either the query or the result respec
tively), or as a hash with the values being an array. See
xmerge.pl as an example of the Hash style. The List style
is the default.
AUTHOR
Matt Sergeant matt@sergeant.org