The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: XML::FromArrayref
DSLIP: adpfa
description: Output XML described by a Perl data structur
userid: NICWOLFF (Nic Wolff)
chapterid: 11 (String_Lang_Text_Proc)
communities:
https://github.com/nicwolff/XML-FromArrayref/issues
similar:
XML::Writer, XML::Simple
rationale:
Writing out valid XML is still a pain. The procedural approach of
modules like XML::Writer is clunky - you still have to balance
closing tags! Perl's data structures can express hierarchical data
very concisely, but there's no easy way to turn a data structure
into XML. XML::Simple::XMLout() kind of works, but uses a hash for
element content so it loses child element order.
This module turns an arrayref into XML in a straightforward and
predictable fashion. Elements and attributes whose names eval false
get skipped, which makes optionally wrapping an element very
natural:
[ $bold && b => 'This is bold if $bold was true' ]
And using map() and grep() to generate or filter repeated elements
is great fun.
I considered a more general namespace, maybe under SGML::, that
this and my similar HTML::FromArrayref could be under, but that
module is already in CPAN under HTML:: so this one would just have a
weird name.
Thanks for your time!
enteredby: NICWOLFF (Nic Wolff)
enteredon: Thu Oct 31 20:58:24 2013 UTC
The resulting entry would be:
XML::
::FromArrayref adpfa Output XML described by a Perl data structur NICWOLFF
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