Perl and XML

Preface 1. Perl and XML Why Use Perl with XML? XML Is Simple with XML::Simple XML Processors A Myriad of Modules Keep in Mind... XML Gotchas 2. An XML Recap A Brief History of XML Markup, Elements, and Structure Namespaces Spacing Entities Unicode, Character Sets, and Encodings The XML Declaration Processing Instructions and Other Markup Free-Form XML and Well-Formed Documents Declaring Elements and Attributes Schemas Transformations 3. XML Basics: Reading and Writing XML Parsers XML::Parser Stream-Based Versus Tree-Based Processing Putting Parsers to Work XML::LibXML XML::XPath Document Validation XML::Writer Character Sets and Encodings 4. Event Streams Working with Streams Events and Handlers The Parser as Commodity Stream Applications XML::PYX XML::Parser 5. SAX SAX Event Handlers DTD Handlers External Entity Resolution Drivers for Non-XML Sources A Handler Base Class XML::Handler::YAWriter as a Base Handler Class XML::SAX: The Second Generation 6. Tree Processing XML Trees XML::Simple XML::Parser's Tree Mode XML::SimpleObject XML::TreeBuilder XML::Grove 7. DOM DOM and Perl DOM Class Interface Reference XML::DOM XML::LibXML 8. Beyond Trees: XPath, XSLT, and More Tree Climbers XPath XSLT Optimized Tree Processing 9. RSS, SOAP, and Other XML Applications XML Modules XML::RSS XML Programming Tools SOAP::Lite 10. Coding Strategies Perl and XML Namespaces Subclassing Converting XML to HTML with XSLT A Comics Index Index