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- # XML::Parser
- #
- # Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Larry Wall and Clark Cooper
- # All rights reserved.
- #
- # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- # modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
-
- package XML::Parser;
-
- use Carp;
-
- BEGIN {
- require XML::Parser::Expat;
- $VERSION = '2.34';
- die "Parser.pm and Expat.pm versions don't match"
- unless $VERSION eq $XML::Parser::Expat::VERSION;
- }
-
- use strict;
-
- use vars qw($VERSION $LWP_load_failed);
-
- $LWP_load_failed = 0;
-
- sub new {
- my ($class, %args) = @_;
- my $style = $args{Style};
-
- my $nonexopt = $args{Non_Expat_Options} ||= {};
-
- $nonexopt->{Style} = 1;
- $nonexopt->{Non_Expat_Options} = 1;
- $nonexopt->{Handlers} = 1;
- $nonexopt->{_HNDL_TYPES} = 1;
- $nonexopt->{NoLWP} = 1;
-
- $args{_HNDL_TYPES} = {%XML::Parser::Expat::Handler_Setters};
- $args{_HNDL_TYPES}->{Init} = 1;
- $args{_HNDL_TYPES}->{Final} = 1;
-
- $args{Handlers} ||= {};
- my $handlers = $args{Handlers};
-
- if (defined($style)) {
- my $stylepkg = $style;
-
- if ($stylepkg !~ /::/) {
- $stylepkg = "\u$style";
-
- eval {
- my $fullpkg = 'XML::Parser::Style::' . $stylepkg;
- my $stylefile = $fullpkg;
- $stylefile =~ s/::/\//g;
- require "$stylefile.pm";
- $stylepkg = $fullpkg;
- };
- if ($@) {
- # fallback to old behaviour
- $stylepkg = 'XML::Parser::' . $stylepkg;
- }
- }
-
- my $htype;
- foreach $htype (keys %{$args{_HNDL_TYPES}}) {
- # Handlers explicity given override
- # handlers from the Style package
- unless (defined($handlers->{$htype})) {
-
- # A handler in the style package must either have
- # exactly the right case as the type name or a
- # completely lower case version of it.
-
- my $hname = "${stylepkg}::$htype";
- if (defined(&$hname)) {
- $handlers->{$htype} = \&$hname;
- next;
- }
-
- $hname = "${stylepkg}::\L$htype";
- if (defined(&$hname)) {
- $handlers->{$htype} = \&$hname;
- next;
- }
- }
- }
- }
-
- unless (defined($handlers->{ExternEnt})
- or defined ($handlers->{ExternEntFin})) {
-
- if ($args{NoLWP} or $LWP_load_failed) {
- $handlers->{ExternEnt} = \&file_ext_ent_handler;
- $handlers->{ExternEntFin} = \&file_ext_ent_cleanup;
- }
- else {
- # The following just bootstraps the real LWP external entity
- # handler
-
- $handlers->{ExternEnt} = \&initial_ext_ent_handler;
-
- # No cleanup function available until LWPExternEnt.pl loaded
- }
- }
-
- $args{Pkg} ||= caller;
- bless \%args, $class;
- } # End of new
-
- sub setHandlers {
- my ($self, @handler_pairs) = @_;
-
- croak("Uneven number of arguments to setHandlers method")
- if (int(@handler_pairs) & 1);
-
- my @ret;
- while (@handler_pairs) {
- my $type = shift @handler_pairs;
- my $handler = shift @handler_pairs;
- unless (defined($self->{_HNDL_TYPES}->{$type})) {
- my @types = sort keys %{$self->{_HNDL_TYPES}};
-
- croak("Unknown Parser handler type: $type\n Valid types: @types");
- }
- push(@ret, $type, $self->{Handlers}->{$type});
- $self->{Handlers}->{$type} = $handler;
- }
-
- return @ret;
- }
-
- sub parse_start {
- my $self = shift;
- my @expat_options = ();
-
- my ($key, $val);
- while (($key, $val) = each %{$self}) {
- push (@expat_options, $key, $val)
- unless exists $self->{Non_Expat_Options}->{$key};
- }
-
- my %handlers = %{$self->{Handlers}};
- my $init = delete $handlers{Init};
- my $final = delete $handlers{Final};
-
- my $expatnb = new XML::Parser::ExpatNB(@expat_options, @_);
- $expatnb->setHandlers(%handlers);
-
- &$init($expatnb)
- if defined($init);
-
- $expatnb->{_State_} = 1;
-
- $expatnb->{FinalHandler} = $final
- if defined($final);
-
- return $expatnb;
- }
-
- sub parse {
- my $self = shift;
- my $arg = shift;
- my @expat_options = ();
- my ($key, $val);
- while (($key, $val) = each %{$self}) {
- push(@expat_options, $key, $val)
- unless exists $self->{Non_Expat_Options}->{$key};
- }
-
- my $expat = new XML::Parser::Expat(@expat_options, @_);
- my %handlers = %{$self->{Handlers}};
- my $init = delete $handlers{Init};
- my $final = delete $handlers{Final};
-
- $expat->setHandlers(%handlers);
-
- if ($self->{Base}) {
- $expat->base($self->{Base});
- }
-
- &$init($expat)
- if defined($init);
-
- my @result = ();
- my $result;
- eval {
- $result = $expat->parse($arg);
- };
- my $err = $@;
- if ($err) {
- $expat->release;
- die $err;
- }
-
- if ($result and defined($final)) {
- if (wantarray) {
- @result = &$final($expat);
- }
- else {
- $result = &$final($expat);
- }
- }
-
- $expat->release;
-
- return unless defined wantarray;
- return wantarray ? @result : $result;
- }
-
- sub parsestring {
- my $self = shift;
- $self->parse(@_);
- }
-
- sub parsefile {
- my $self = shift;
- my $file = shift;
- local(*FILE);
- open(FILE, $file) or croak "Couldn't open $file:\n$!";
- binmode(FILE);
- my @ret;
- my $ret;
-
- $self->{Base} = $file;
-
- if (wantarray) {
- eval {
- @ret = $self->parse(*FILE, @_);
- };
- }
- else {
- eval {
- $ret = $self->parse(*FILE, @_);
- };
- }
- my $err = $@;
- close(FILE);
- die $err if $err;
-
- return unless defined wantarray;
- return wantarray ? @ret : $ret;
- }
-
- sub initial_ext_ent_handler {
- # This just bootstraps in the real lwp_ext_ent_handler which
- # also loads the URI and LWP modules.
-
- unless ($LWP_load_failed) {
- local($^W) = 0;
-
- my $stat =
- eval {
- require('XML/Parser/LWPExternEnt.pl');
- };
-
- if ($stat) {
- $_[0]->setHandlers(ExternEnt => \&lwp_ext_ent_handler,
- ExternEntFin => \&lwp_ext_ent_cleanup);
-
- goto &lwp_ext_ent_handler;
- }
-
- # Failed to load lwp handler, act as if NoLWP
-
- $LWP_load_failed = 1;
-
- my $cmsg = "Couldn't load LWP based external entity handler\n";
- $cmsg .= "Switching to file-based external entity handler\n";
- $cmsg .= " (To avoid this message, use NoLWP option to XML::Parser)\n";
- warn($cmsg);
- }
-
- $_[0]->setHandlers(ExternEnt => \&file_ext_ent_handler,
- ExternEntFin => \&file_ext_ent_cleanup);
- goto &file_ext_ent_handler;
-
- }
-
- sub file_ext_ent_handler {
- my ($xp, $base, $path) = @_;
-
- # Prepend base only for relative paths
-
- if (defined($base)
- and not ($path =~ m!^(?:[\\/]|\w+:)!))
- {
- my $newpath = $base;
- $newpath =~ s![^\\/:]*$!$path!;
- $path = $newpath;
- }
-
- if ($path =~ /^\s*[|>+]/
- or $path =~ /\|\s*$/) {
- $xp->{ErrorMessage}
- .= "System ID ($path) contains Perl IO control characters";
- return undef;
- }
-
- require IO::File;
- my $fh = new IO::File($path);
- unless (defined $fh) {
- $xp->{ErrorMessage}
- .= "Failed to open $path:\n$!";
- return undef;
- }
-
- $xp->{_BaseStack} ||= [];
- $xp->{_FhStack} ||= [];
-
- push(@{$xp->{_BaseStack}}, $base);
- push(@{$xp->{_FhStack}}, $fh);
-
- $xp->base($path);
-
- return $fh;
- }
-
- sub file_ext_ent_cleanup {
- my ($xp) = @_;
-
- my $fh = pop(@{$xp->{_FhStack}});
- $fh->close;
-
- my $base = pop(@{$xp->{_BaseStack}});
- $xp->base($base);
- }
-
- 1;
-
- __END__
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- XML::Parser - A perl module for parsing XML documents
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use XML::Parser;
-
- $p1 = new XML::Parser(Style => 'Debug');
- $p1->parsefile('REC-xml-19980210.xml');
- $p1->parse('<foo id="me">Hello World</foo>');
-
- # Alternative
- $p2 = new XML::Parser(Handlers => {Start => \&handle_start,
- End => \&handle_end,
- Char => \&handle_char});
- $p2->parse($socket);
-
- # Another alternative
- $p3 = new XML::Parser(ErrorContext => 2);
-
- $p3->setHandlers(Char => \&text,
- Default => \&other);
-
- open(FOO, 'xmlgenerator |');
- $p3->parse(*FOO, ProtocolEncoding => 'ISO-8859-1');
- close(FOO);
-
- $p3->parsefile('junk.xml', ErrorContext => 3);
-
- =begin man
- .ds PI PI
-
- =end man
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- This module provides ways to parse XML documents. It is built on top of
- L<XML::Parser::Expat>, which is a lower level interface to James Clark's
- expat library. Each call to one of the parsing methods creates a new
- instance of XML::Parser::Expat which is then used to parse the document.
- Expat options may be provided when the XML::Parser object is created.
- These options are then passed on to the Expat object on each parse call.
- They can also be given as extra arguments to the parse methods, in which
- case they override options given at XML::Parser creation time.
-
- The behavior of the parser is controlled either by C<L</Style>> and/or
- C<L</Handlers>> options, or by L</setHandlers> method. These all provide
- mechanisms for XML::Parser to set the handlers needed by XML::Parser::Expat.
- If neither C<Style> nor C<Handlers> are specified, then parsing just
- checks the document for being well-formed.
-
- When underlying handlers get called, they receive as their first parameter
- the I<Expat> object, not the Parser object.
-
- =head1 METHODS
-
- =over 4
-
- =item new
-
- This is a class method, the constructor for XML::Parser. Options are passed
- as keyword value pairs. Recognized options are:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item * Style
-
- This option provides an easy way to create a given style of parser. The
- built in styles are: L<"Debug">, L<"Subs">, L<"Tree">, L<"Objects">,
- and L<"Stream">. These are all defined in separate packages under
- C<XML::Parser::Style::*>, and you can find further documentation for
- each style both below, and in those packages.
-
- Custom styles can be provided by giving a full package name containing
- at least one '::'. This package should then have subs defined for each
- handler it wishes to have installed. See L<"STYLES"> below
- for a discussion of each built in style.
-
- =item * Handlers
-
- When provided, this option should be an anonymous hash containing as
- keys the type of handler and as values a sub reference to handle that
- type of event. All the handlers get passed as their 1st parameter the
- instance of expat that is parsing the document. Further details on
- handlers can be found in L<"HANDLERS">. Any handler set here
- overrides the corresponding handler set with the Style option.
-
- =item * Pkg
-
- Some styles will refer to subs defined in this package. If not provided,
- it defaults to the package which called the constructor.
-
- =item * ErrorContext
-
- This is an Expat option. When this option is defined, errors are reported
- in context. The value should be the number of lines to show on either side
- of the line in which the error occurred.
-
- =item * ProtocolEncoding
-
- This is an Expat option. This sets the protocol encoding name. It defaults
- to none. The built-in encodings are: C<UTF-8>, C<ISO-8859-1>, C<UTF-16>, and
- C<US-ASCII>. Other encodings may be used if they have encoding maps in one
- of the directories in the @Encoding_Path list. Check L<"ENCODINGS"> for
- more information on encoding maps. Setting the protocol encoding overrides
- any encoding in the XML declaration.
-
- =item * Namespaces
-
- This is an Expat option. If this is set to a true value, then namespace
- processing is done during the parse. See L<XML::Parser::Expat/"Namespaces">
- for further discussion of namespace processing.
-
- =item * NoExpand
-
- This is an Expat option. Normally, the parser will try to expand references
- to entities defined in the internal subset. If this option is set to a true
- value, and a default handler is also set, then the default handler will be
- called when an entity reference is seen in text. This has no effect if a
- default handler has not been registered, and it has no effect on the expansion
- of entity references inside attribute values.
-
- =item * Stream_Delimiter
-
- This is an Expat option. It takes a string value. When this string is found
- alone on a line while parsing from a stream, then the parse is ended as if it
- saw an end of file. The intended use is with a stream of xml documents in a
- MIME multipart format. The string should not contain a trailing newline.
-
- =item * ParseParamEnt
-
- This is an Expat option. Unless standalone is set to "yes" in the XML
- declaration, setting this to a true value allows the external DTD to be read,
- and parameter entities to be parsed and expanded.
-
- =item * NoLWP
-
- This option has no effect if the ExternEnt or ExternEntFin handlers are
- directly set. Otherwise, if true, it forces the use of a file based external
- entity handler.
-
- =item * Non-Expat-Options
-
- If provided, this should be an anonymous hash whose keys are options that
- shouldn't be passed to Expat. This should only be of concern to those
- subclassing XML::Parser.
-
- =back
-
- =item setHandlers(TYPE, HANDLER [, TYPE, HANDLER [...]])
-
- This method registers handlers for various parser events. It overrides any
- previous handlers registered through the Style or Handler options or through
- earlier calls to setHandlers. By providing a false or undefined value as
- the handler, the existing handler can be unset.
-
- This method returns a list of type, handler pairs corresponding to the
- input. The handlers returned are the ones that were in effect prior to
- the call.
-
- See a description of the handler types in L<"HANDLERS">.
-
- =item parse(SOURCE [, OPT => OPT_VALUE [...]])
-
- The SOURCE parameter should either be a string containing the whole XML
- document, or it should be an open IO::Handle. Constructor options to
- XML::Parser::Expat given as keyword-value pairs may follow the SOURCE
- parameter. These override, for this call, any options or attributes passed
- through from the XML::Parser instance.
-
- A die call is thrown if a parse error occurs. Otherwise it will return 1
- or whatever is returned from the B<Final> handler, if one is installed.
- In other words, what parse may return depends on the style.
-
- =item parsestring
-
- This is just an alias for parse for backwards compatibility.
-
- =item parsefile(FILE [, OPT => OPT_VALUE [...]])
-
- Open FILE for reading, then call parse with the open handle. The file
- is closed no matter how parse returns. Returns what parse returns.
-
- =item parse_start([ OPT => OPT_VALUE [...]])
-
- Create and return a new instance of XML::Parser::ExpatNB. Constructor
- options may be provided. If an init handler has been provided, it is
- called before returning the ExpatNB object. Documents are parsed by
- making incremental calls to the parse_more method of this object, which
- takes a string. A single call to the parse_done method of this object,
- which takes no arguments, indicates that the document is finished.
-
- If there is a final handler installed, it is executed by the parse_done
- method before returning and the parse_done method returns whatever is
- returned by the final handler.
-
- =back
-
- =head1 HANDLERS
-
- Expat is an event based parser. As the parser recognizes parts of the
- document (say the start or end tag for an XML element), then any handlers
- registered for that type of an event are called with suitable parameters.
- All handlers receive an instance of XML::Parser::Expat as their first
- argument. See L<XML::Parser::Expat/"METHODS"> for a discussion of the
- methods that can be called on this object.
-
- =head2 Init (Expat)
-
- This is called just before the parsing of the document starts.
-
- =head2 Final (Expat)
-
- This is called just after parsing has finished, but only if no errors
- occurred during the parse. Parse returns what this returns.
-
- =head2 Start (Expat, Element [, Attr, Val [,...]])
-
- This event is generated when an XML start tag is recognized. Element is the
- name of the XML element type that is opened with the start tag. The Attr &
- Val pairs are generated for each attribute in the start tag.
-
- =head2 End (Expat, Element)
-
- This event is generated when an XML end tag is recognized. Note that
- an XML empty tag (<foo/>) generates both a start and an end event.
-
- =head2 Char (Expat, String)
-
- This event is generated when non-markup is recognized. The non-markup
- sequence of characters is in String. A single non-markup sequence of
- characters may generate multiple calls to this handler. Whatever the
- encoding of the string in the original document, this is given to the
- handler in UTF-8.
-
- =head2 Proc (Expat, Target, Data)
-
- This event is generated when a processing instruction is recognized.
-
- =head2 Comment (Expat, Data)
-
- This event is generated when a comment is recognized.
-
- =head2 CdataStart (Expat)
-
- This is called at the start of a CDATA section.
-
- =head2 CdataEnd (Expat)
-
- This is called at the end of a CDATA section.
-
- =head2 Default (Expat, String)
-
- This is called for any characters that don't have a registered handler.
- This includes both characters that are part of markup for which no
- events are generated (markup declarations) and characters that
- could generate events, but for which no handler has been registered.
-
- Whatever the encoding in the original document, the string is returned to
- the handler in UTF-8.
-
- =head2 Unparsed (Expat, Entity, Base, Sysid, Pubid, Notation)
-
- This is called for a declaration of an unparsed entity. Entity is the name
- of the entity. Base is the base to be used for resolving a relative URI.
- Sysid is the system id. Pubid is the public id. Notation is the notation
- name. Base and Pubid may be undefined.
-
- =head2 Notation (Expat, Notation, Base, Sysid, Pubid)
-
- This is called for a declaration of notation. Notation is the notation name.
- Base is the base to be used for resolving a relative URI. Sysid is the system
- id. Pubid is the public id. Base, Sysid, and Pubid may all be undefined.
-
- =head2 ExternEnt (Expat, Base, Sysid, Pubid)
-
- This is called when an external entity is referenced. Base is the base to be
- used for resolving a relative URI. Sysid is the system id. Pubid is the public
- id. Base, and Pubid may be undefined.
-
- This handler should either return a string, which represents the contents of
- the external entity, or return an open filehandle that can be read to obtain
- the contents of the external entity, or return undef, which indicates the
- external entity couldn't be found and will generate a parse error.
-
- If an open filehandle is returned, it must be returned as either a glob
- (*FOO) or as a reference to a glob (e.g. an instance of IO::Handle).
-
- A default handler is installed for this event. The default handler is
- XML::Parser::lwp_ext_ent_handler unless the NoLWP option was provided with
- a true value, otherwise XML::Parser::file_ext_ent_handler is the default
- handler for external entities. Even without the NoLWP option, if the
- URI or LWP modules are missing, the file based handler ends up being used
- after giving a warning on the first external entity reference.
-
- The LWP external entity handler will use proxies defined in the environment
- (http_proxy, ftp_proxy, etc.).
-
- Please note that the LWP external entity handler reads the entire
- entity into a string and returns it, where as the file handler opens a
- filehandle.
-
- Also note that the file external entity handler will likely choke on
- absolute URIs or file names that don't fit the conventions of the local
- operating system.
-
- The expat base method can be used to set a basename for
- relative pathnames. If no basename is given, or if the basename is itself
- a relative name, then it is relative to the current working directory.
-
- =head2 ExternEntFin (Expat)
-
- This is called after parsing an external entity. It's not called unless
- an ExternEnt handler is also set. There is a default handler installed
- that pairs with the default ExternEnt handler.
-
- If you're going to install your own ExternEnt handler, then you should
- set (or unset) this handler too.
-
- =head2 Entity (Expat, Name, Val, Sysid, Pubid, Ndata, IsParam)
-
- This is called when an entity is declared. For internal entities, the Val
- parameter will contain the value and the remaining three parameters will be
- undefined. For external entities, the Val parameter will be undefined, the
- Sysid parameter will have the system id, the Pubid parameter will have the
- public id if it was provided (it will be undefined otherwise), the Ndata
- parameter will contain the notation for unparsed entities. If this is a
- parameter entity declaration, then the IsParam parameter is true.
-
- Note that this handler and the Unparsed handler above overlap. If both are
- set, then this handler will not be called for unparsed entities.
-
- =head2 Element (Expat, Name, Model)
-
- The element handler is called when an element declaration is found. Name
- is the element name, and Model is the content model as an XML::Parser::Content
- object. See L<XML::Parser::Expat/"XML::Parser::ContentModel Methods">
- for methods available for this class.
-
- =head2 Attlist (Expat, Elname, Attname, Type, Default, Fixed)
-
- This handler is called for each attribute in an ATTLIST declaration.
- So an ATTLIST declaration that has multiple attributes will generate multiple
- calls to this handler. The Elname parameter is the name of the element with
- which the attribute is being associated. The Attname parameter is the name
- of the attribute. Type is the attribute type, given as a string. Default is
- the default value, which will either be "#REQUIRED", "#IMPLIED" or a quoted
- string (i.e. the returned string will begin and end with a quote character).
- If Fixed is true, then this is a fixed attribute.
-
- =head2 Doctype (Expat, Name, Sysid, Pubid, Internal)
-
- This handler is called for DOCTYPE declarations. Name is the document type
- name. Sysid is the system id of the document type, if it was provided,
- otherwise it's undefined. Pubid is the public id of the document type,
- which will be undefined if no public id was given. Internal is the internal
- subset, given as a string. If there was no internal subset, it will be
- undefined. Internal will contain all whitespace, comments, processing
- instructions, and declarations seen in the internal subset. The declarations
- will be there whether or not they have been processed by another handler
- (except for unparsed entities processed by the Unparsed handler). However,
- comments and processing instructions will not appear if they've been processed
- by their respective handlers.
-
- =head2 * DoctypeFin (Parser)
-
- This handler is called after parsing of the DOCTYPE declaration has finished,
- including any internal or external DTD declarations.
-
- =head2 XMLDecl (Expat, Version, Encoding, Standalone)
-
- This handler is called for xml declarations. Version is a string containg
- the version. Encoding is either undefined or contains an encoding string.
- Standalone will be either true, false, or undefined if the standalone attribute
- is yes, no, or not made respectively.
-
- =head1 STYLES
-
- =head2 Debug
-
- This just prints out the document in outline form. Nothing special is
- returned by parse.
-
- =head2 Subs
-
- Each time an element starts, a sub by that name in the package specified
- by the Pkg option is called with the same parameters that the Start
- handler gets called with.
-
- Each time an element ends, a sub with that name appended with an underscore
- ("_"), is called with the same parameters that the End handler gets called
- with.
-
- Nothing special is returned by parse.
-
- =head2 Tree
-
- Parse will return a parse tree for the document. Each node in the tree
- takes the form of a tag, content pair. Text nodes are represented with
- a pseudo-tag of "0" and the string that is their content. For elements,
- the content is an array reference. The first item in the array is a
- (possibly empty) hash reference containing attributes. The remainder of
- the array is a sequence of tag-content pairs representing the content
- of the element.
-
- So for example the result of parsing:
-
- <foo><head id="a">Hello <em>there</em></head><bar>Howdy<ref/></bar>do</foo>
-
- would be:
-
- Tag Content
- ==================================================================
- [foo, [{}, head, [{id => "a"}, 0, "Hello ", em, [{}, 0, "there"]],
- bar, [ {}, 0, "Howdy", ref, [{}]],
- 0, "do"
- ]
- ]
-
- The root document "foo", has 3 children: a "head" element, a "bar"
- element and the text "do". After the empty attribute hash, these are
- represented in it's contents by 3 tag-content pairs.
-
- =head2 Objects
-
- This is similar to the Tree style, except that a hash object is created for
- each element. The corresponding object will be in the class whose name
- is created by appending "::" and the element name to the package set with
- the Pkg option. Non-markup text will be in the ::Characters class. The
- contents of the corresponding object will be in an anonymous array that
- is the value of the Kids property for that object.
-
- =head2 Stream
-
- This style also uses the Pkg package. If none of the subs that this
- style looks for is there, then the effect of parsing with this style is
- to print a canonical copy of the document without comments or declarations.
- All the subs receive as their 1st parameter the Expat instance for the
- document they're parsing.
-
- It looks for the following routines:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item * StartDocument
-
- Called at the start of the parse .
-
- =item * StartTag
-
- Called for every start tag with a second parameter of the element type. The $_
- variable will contain a copy of the tag and the %_ variable will contain
- attribute values supplied for that element.
-
- =item * EndTag
-
- Called for every end tag with a second parameter of the element type. The $_
- variable will contain a copy of the end tag.
-
- =item * Text
-
- Called just before start or end tags with accumulated non-markup text in
- the $_ variable.
-
- =item * PI
-
- Called for processing instructions. The $_ variable will contain a copy of
- the PI and the target and data are sent as 2nd and 3rd parameters
- respectively.
-
- =item * EndDocument
-
- Called at conclusion of the parse.
-
- =back
-
- =head1 ENCODINGS
-
- XML documents may be encoded in character sets other than Unicode as
- long as they may be mapped into the Unicode character set. Expat has
- further restrictions on encodings. Read the xmlparse.h header file in
- the expat distribution to see details on these restrictions.
-
- Expat has built-in encodings for: C<UTF-8>, C<ISO-8859-1>, C<UTF-16>, and
- C<US-ASCII>. Encodings are set either through the XML declaration
- encoding attribute or through the ProtocolEncoding option to XML::Parser
- or XML::Parser::Expat.
-
- For encodings other than the built-ins, expat calls the function
- load_encoding in the Expat package with the encoding name. This function
- looks for a file in the path list @XML::Parser::Expat::Encoding_Path, that
- matches the lower-cased name with a '.enc' extension. The first one it
- finds, it loads.
-
- If you wish to build your own encoding maps, check out the XML::Encoding
- module from CPAN.
-
- =head1 AUTHORS
-
- Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>> wrote version 1.0.
-
- Clark Cooper <F<coopercc@netheaven.com>> picked up support, changed the API
- for this version (2.x), provided documentation,
- and added some standard package features.
-
- Matt Sergeant <F<matt@sergeant.org>> is now maintaining XML::Parser
-
- =cut
-