SPUG: Generating XML

[Jay Scherrer]

I've been using XML::Writer. Although very basic it can also produce the 
dtd's needed. It used to be included in the XML Bundle but for some reason 
left out.

Jay

On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:02 am, you wrote:
> SPUGsters,
>
> Amidst 90% the offtopic messages on this list recently, here's a
> question about dealing with XML from Perl.
>
> I've done a fair bit of work with XML in Perl, but typically it has had
> to do with receiving information formatted in XML, with the task of
> having to decipher the contents and sift the groolly bits of data out.
> My current project adds another task: generating XML to match particular
> DTDs. I'll receive Perl data structures, and need to translate them into
> valid XML.
>
> I've two thoughts on how to do this. In my simple proof-of-concept
> program sketches, they seem to be approximately equal. One is to use a
> template file, and fill in the changing pieces, and the other is to
> create a DOM structure, and then call its $d->toString() method. Does
> anyone on the list have experience with either of these styles of
> generating XML? A third style that I haven't tried would be to create
> a system that would interpret the Perl data structure, and then
> generate SAX events. This also seems easy enough, but I haven't played
> with it yet.
>
> A SAX style pipeline for all processing from input to output won't work
> in this case, as the data from the querying doc is quite different than
> the data of the replying doc.
>
> The tricky bit that I haven't solved is complying to the DTD in such
> a manner that I'll be sure that my generated doc is correct.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> -C.
>
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