NAME

XML::Compile::Translate::Template - create an XML or PERL example

INHERITANCE

 XML::Compile::Translate::Template
   is a XML::Compile::Translate

SYNOPSIS

 my $schema = XML::Compile::Schema->new(...);
 print $schema->template(XML  => $type, ...);
 print $schema->template(PERL => $type, ...);

 # script as wrapper for this module
 schema2example -f XML ...

DESCRIPTION

The translator understands schemas, but does not encode that into actions. This module interprets the parse results of the translator, and creates a kind of abstract syntax tree from it, which can be used for documentational purposes. Then, it implements to ways to represent that knowledge: as an XML or a Perl example of the data-structure which the schema describes.

Extends "DESCRIPTION" in XML::Compile::Translate.

METHODS

Extends "METHODS" in XML::Compile::Translate.

DETAILS

Extends "DETAILS" in XML::Compile::Translate.

Translator options

Extends "Translator options" in XML::Compile::Translate.

Processing Wildcards

Wildcards are not (yet) supported.

Schema hooks

Hooks are implemented since version 0.82. They can be used to improve the template output.

hooks executed before the template is generated

None defined yet.

hooks executed as replacement

The predefined hook COLLAPSE can be used to remove the extensive listing of some elements. Usually used with a type of which you know the structure or which is repeated often.

hooks for post-processing, after the data is collected

None defined yet.

Typemaps

Typemaps are currently only available to improve the PERL output.

Typemaps for PERL template output

You can pass &function_name to indicate that the code reference with variable name $function_name will be called. Mind the change of & into $.

When $object_name is provided, then that object is an interface object, which will be called for the indicated type.

In case class name (any bareword will do) is specified, it is shown as a call to the toXML() instance method call from some data object of the specified class.

. Example: typemaps with template

  $schemas->template(PERL => $some_type, typemap =>
    { $type1 => '&myfunc'   # $myfunc->('WRITER', ...)
    , $type2 => '$interf'   # $interf->($object, ...)
    , $type3 => 'My::Class'
    });

SEE ALSO

This module is part of XML-Compile distribution version 1.63, built on July 02, 2019. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/xml-compile/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2006-2019 by [Mark Overmeer <markov@cpan.org>]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/