NAME
Convert::EDS::XDD - Convert CANopen EDS to POWERLINK XDD
SYNOPSIS
perl -MConvert::EDS::XDD=eds2xdd -e "print eds2xdd 'profile.eds'" > profile.xdd
DESCRIPTION
EDS is an ini based format specified by the CiA e.V. in order to
describe CANopen devices. The Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group
specifies an EDS-based XML format for EPL devices.
This module Takes in an EDS file or a string with its content and
returns a XDD string. A self-contained (fatpacked) epl2xdd script is
available at the Github releases page
<https://github.com/epl-viz/Convert-EDS-XDD/releases/latest>.
LIMITATIONS
May not handle all details of the EDS. Pull requests and reports
(issues on Github) welcome.
METHODS AND ARGUMENTS
eds2xdd($filename, [$encoding])
Here, the [] indicate an optional parameter.
Returns the EDS' content as XML string on success or undef on error
in file contents.
Function croaks if opening file fails.
$encoding may be used to indicate the encoding of the file, e.g.
'utf8' or 'encoding(iso-8859-1)'.
Do not add a prefix to $encoding, such as '<' or '<:'.
eds2xdd_string($string)
Returns the EDS string as XML string
GIT REPOSITORY
http://github.com/epl-viz/Convert-EDS-XDD
SEE ALSO
EPL-Viz - Visualization for Ethernet POWERLINK
<http://github.com/epl-viz>
AUTHOR
Ahmad Fatoum <athreef@cpan.org>, http://a3f.at
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2017 Ahmad Fatoum
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.