NAME XML::Parser::Wrapper - A simple object wrapper around XML::Parser SYNOPSIS use XML::Parser::Wrapper; my $xml = qq{Hello World!}; my $root = XML::Parser::Wrapper->new($xml); my $root2 = XML::Parser::Wrapper->new({ file => '/tmp/test.xml' }); my $root_tag_name = $root->name; my $roots_children = $root->elements; foreach my $element (@$roots_children) { if ($element->name eq 'head') { my $id = $element->attr('id'); my $hello_world_text = $element->text; # eq "Hello World!" } } DESCRIPTION XML::Parser::Wrapper provides a simple object around XML::Parser to make it more convenient to deal with the parse tree returned by XML::Parser. METHODS new($xml), new({ file => $filename }) Calls XML::Parser to parse the given XML and returns a new XML::Parser::Wrapper object using the parse tree output from XML::Parser. name() Returns the name of the element represented by this object. Aliases: tag(), getName(), getTag() is_text() Returns a true value if this element is a text element, false otherwise. Aliases: isText() text() If this element is a text element, the text is returned. Otherwise, return the text from the first child text element, or undef if there is not one. Aliases: content(), getText(), getContent() attributes(), attributes($name1, $name2, ...) If no arguments are given, returns a hash of attributes for this element. If arguments are present, an array of corresponding attribute values is returned. Returns an array in array context and an array reference if called in scalar context. E.g., bar my ($name, $id) = $element->attributes('name', 'id'); Aliases: attrs(), getAttributes(), getAttrs() attribute($name) Similar to attributes(), but only returns one value. Aliases: attr(), getAttribute(), getAttr() elements() Returns an array of child elements. Aliases: getElements(), kids(), getKids(), children(), getChildren() first_element() Returns the first child element of this element. Aliases: getFirstElement(), kid(), first_kid() EXAMPLES AUTHOR Don Owens COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Don Owens All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. VERSION $Id: Wrapper.pm,v 1.1 2005/04/24 19:35:24 don Exp $