# # Copyright (C) 1998 Ken MacLeod # XML::Grove::AsString is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. # # $Id: AsString.pm,v 1.2 1998/04/11 15:42:30 ken Exp $ # use strict; package XML::Grove::AsString; use XML::Grove::Visitor; sub new { my ($class, %args) = @_; my $self = \%args; return bless $self, $class; } sub as_string { my $self = shift; my $object = shift; my $fh = shift; if (defined $fh) { return (); } else { return join('', $object->accept($self, $fh)); } } sub filter { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->{'filter'} = shift; return $self; } else { return $self->{'filter'}; } } sub entity_map { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->{'entity_map'} = shift; return $self; } else { return $self->{'entity_map'}; } } sub entity_map_options { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->{'entity_map_options'} = shift; return $self; } else { return $self->{'entity_map_options'}; } } sub entity_map_filter { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->{'entity_map_filter'} = shift; return $self; } else { return $self->{'entity_map_filter'}; } } sub visit_document { my $self = shift; my $document = shift; return $document->children_accept($self, @_); } sub visit_grove { my $self = shift; my $document = shift; return $document->children_accept($self, @_); } sub visit_element { my $self = shift; my $element = shift; return $element->children_accept($self, @_); } sub visit_entity { my $self = shift; my $entity = shift; my $fh = shift; my $mapper = $self->{'entity_map'}; return '' if (!defined $mapper); my $mapping; if (ref($mapper) eq 'CODE') { $mapping = &$mapper($entity->data, $self->{'entity_map_options'}); } else { $mapping = $mapper->lookup($entity->data, $self->{'entity_map_options'}); } if ($self->{'entity_map_filter'}) { my $filter = $self->{'filter'}; if (defined $filter) { $mapping = &$filter($mapping); } } return $self->_print($fh, $mapping); } sub visit_pi { return (); } sub visit_comment { return (); } sub visit_scalar { my $self = shift; my $scalar = shift; my $fh = shift; if (ref $scalar) { $scalar = $scalar->delegate; } if (defined ($self->{'filter'})) { $scalar = &{$self->{'filter'}}($scalar); } return $self->_print($fh, $scalar); } sub _print { my $self = shift; my $fh = shift; my $string = shift; if (defined $fh) { $fh->print($string); return (); } else { return ($string); } } package XML::Grove::_Common; sub as_string { my $xml_object = shift; return XML::Grove::AsString->new(@_)->as_string($xml_object); } package XML::Grove::Element; sub attr_as_string { my $element = shift; my $attr = shift; my $writer = new XML::Grove::AsString (@_); return $element->attr_accept ($attr, $writer); } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME XML::Grove::AsString - output content of XML objects as a string =head1 SYNOPSIS use XML::Grove::AsString; $string = $xml_object->as_string OPTIONS; $string = $element->attr_as_string $attr, OPTIONS; $writer = new XML::Grove::AsString OPTIONS; # OPTIONS $writer->filter([ \&callback ]); $writer->entity_map([ \&callback ]); $writer->entity_map([ $mapper ]); $writer->entity_map_options([ \%options ]); $writer->entity_map_filter([ $bool ]); $string = $writer->as_string($xml_object); $writer->as_string($xml_object, $file_handle); =head1 DESCRIPTION Calling `C' on an XML object returns the character data contents of that object as a string, including all elements below that object. Calling `C' on an element returns the contents of the named attribute as a string. Comments, processing instructions, and, by default, entities all return an empty string. I may either be a key-value list or a hash containing the options described below. The default options are no filtering and entities are mapped to empty strings. =head1 OPTIONS This list summarizes the options available for `C': filter => sub to filter character data entity_map => an object or sub to map character entities entity_map_options => options passed to entity_map entity_map_filter => true to use filter on mapped entities `C' is an anonymous sub that gets called to process character data before it is appended to the string to be returned. This can be used, for example, to escape characters that are special in output formats. `C' is a flag to indicate if mapped entities should be filtered after mapping. `C' is called like this: $string = &$filter ($character_data); `C' is an object that accepts `C' methods or an anonymous sub that gets called with the entity replacement text (data) and mapper options as arguments and returns the corresponding character replacements. It is called like this: $replacement_text = $entity_map->lookup ($entity_data, $entity_map_options); or this: $replacement_text = &$entity_map ($entity_data, $entity_map_options); `C' is passed through to the `C' method, the type of value is defined by the entity mapping package or the anonymous sub. =head1 EXAMPLES Here is an example of entity mapping using the Text::EntityMap module: use Text::EntityMap; use XML::Grove::AsString; $html_iso_dia = Text::EntityMap->load ('ISOdia.2html'); $html_iso_pub = Text::EntityMap->load ('ISOpub.2html'); $html_map = Text::EntityMap->group ($html_iso_dia, $html_iso_pub); $element->as_string (entity_map => $html_map); =head1 AUTHOR Ken MacLeod, ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us =head1 SEE ALSO perl(1), XML::Parser(3), XML::Parser::Grove(3). Extensible Markup Language (XML) =cut