NAME

XML::Registry - Perl module for loading and saving an XML registry.

SYNOPSIS

  use XML::Parser;
  use XML::Registry;

  # create a new XML::Parser instance using Tree Style
  $parser = new XML::Parser (Style => 'Tree');

  # create new instance of XML::Registry
  $dump = new XML::Registry;

  # Convert XML Registry to Perl code
  $tree = $parser->parsefile($file); 
  $tree = $parser->parse('<foo id="me">Hello World</foo>');
  # print the results
  print $dump->xml2pl($tree);

  # Convert Perl code to XML Registry 
  # read file in Data::Dumper format
  open(PL,$file) || die "Cannot open $file: $!";
  $perl = eval(join("",<PL>));
  # print the results
  print $dump->pl2xml($perl);

DESCRIPTION

XML::Registry can dump an XML registry to Perl code using Data::Dumper, or dump Perl code into an XML registry.

This is done via the following 2 methods: XML::Registry::xml2pl XML::Registry::pl2xml

This module was originally written for an article in TPJ. It was an exercise in using the XML::Parser module.

AUTHOR

Jonathan Eisenzopf, eisen@pobox.com

SEE ALSO

perl(1), XML::Parser(3).