NAME

Convert::EDS::XDD - Convert CANopen EDS to POWERLINK XDD

SYNOPSIS

  $ cpan Convert::EDS::XDD # install from CPAN
  $ eds2xdd profile.eds > profile.xdd # Convert with the eds2xdd script

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. An eds2xdd wrapper script is also installed into the PATH.

eds2xdd is also available as a self-contained (fatpacked) script at the Github releases page.

LIMITATIONS

May not handle all details of the EDS. Pull requests and reports (issues on Github) are 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

AUTHOR

Ahmad Fatoum <athreef@cpan.org>, http://a3f.at

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Ahmad Fatoum

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.