Xacobeo::Document(3) An XML document and its related information.

SYNOPSIS


use Xacobeo::Document;

my $document = Xacobeo::Document->new_from_file('file.xml', 'xml');

my $namespaces = $document->get_namespaces(); # Hashref
while (my ($uri, $prefix) = each %{ $namespaces }) {
printf "%-5s: %s\n", $prefix, $uri;
}


my $nodes = $document->find('/x:html//x:a[@href]');
foreach my $node ($nodes->get_nodelist) {
print "Got node ", $node->name, "\n";
}

$document->validate('/x:html//x:a[@href]') or die "Invalid XPath expression";

DESCRIPTION

This class wraps an XML document with its corresponding meta information (namespaces, XPath context, document node, etc).

It inherits from Glib::Object.

PROPERTIES

The following properties are defined:

source

The source of the document. In most cases this will be a path or an URI pointing to the document.

type

The type of document 'xml' or 'html'.

documentNode

The document's main node (an instance of XML::LibXML::Node).

xpath

The XPath conext to be used with the document.

namespaces

An hashref with the namespaces registered in the document.

METHODS

The package defines the following methods:

new_from_file

Creates a new instance from a file (an URI should also be valid).

Parameters: 

        $source: the source of the document, this can be a filename or an URI.
        $type:   the type of document: C<xml> or C<html>.

new_from_string

Creates a new instance from a string.

Parameters: 

        $content: the contents of the document.
        $type:    the type of document: C<xml> or C<html>.

empty

Returns an empty document.

source

The source of the document: most likely a file path or an URI.

type

The type of document: xml or html.

namespaces

Returns the namespaces declared in the document. The namespaces are returned in a hashref where the URIs are used as a key and the prefix as a value.

documentNode

Returns the document's node (an instance of XML::LibXML::Document).

xpath

Returns the XPath context (an instance of XML::LibXML::XPathContext) that includes the namespaces declared in the document. This is the context used to execute all XPath queries.

find

Runs the given XPath query on the document and returns the results. The results could be a node list or a single value like a boolean, a number or a scalar if an expression is passed. This method always return its values in scalar context.

This method croaks if the expression can't be evaluated.

Parameters: 

        $xpath: the XPath expression to execute.

validate

Validates the syntax of the given XPath query. The syntax is validated within a context that has the same namespaces as the ones defined in the current XML document.

NOTE: This method can't validate if undefined functions or variables are used.

Parameters: 

        $xpath: the XPath expression to validate.

get_prefixed_name

Returns the node name by prefixing it with our prefixes in the case where namespaces are used.

AUTHORS

Emmanuel Rodriguez <[email protected]>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008,2009 by Emmanuel Rodriguez.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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