NAME XML::Parser::Lite - Lightweight regexp-based XML parser SYNOPSIS use XML::Parser::Lite; $p1 = new XML::Parser::Lite; $p1->setHandlers( Start => sub { shift; print "start: @_\n" }, Char => sub { shift; print "char: @_\n" }, End => sub { shift; print "end: @_\n" }, ); $p1->parse('Hello World!'); $p2 = new XML::Parser::Lite Handlers => { Start => sub { shift; print "start: @_\n" }, Char => sub { shift; print "char: @_\n" }, End => sub { shift; print "end: @_\n" }, } ; $p2->parse('Hello cruel World!'); DESCRIPTION This Perl implements an XML parser with a interface similar to XML::Parser. Though not all callbacks are supported, you should be able to use it in the same way you use XML::Parser. Due to using experimental regexp features it'll work only on Perl 5.6 and above and may behave differently on different platforms. Note that you cannot use regular expressions or split in callbacks. This is due to a limitation of perl's regular expression implementation (which is not re-entrant). SUBROUTINES/METHODS new Constructor. As (almost) all SOAP::Lite constructors, new() returns the object called on when called as object method. This means that the following effectively is a no-op if $obj is a object: $obj = $obj->new(); New accepts a single named parameter, "Handlers" with a hash ref as value: my $parser = XML::Parser::Lite->new( Handlers => { Start => sub { shift; print "start: @_\n" }, Char => sub { shift; print "char: @_\n" }, End => sub { shift; print "end: @_\n" }, } ); The handlers given will be passed to setHandlers. setHandlers Sets (or resets) the parsing handlers. Accepts a hash with the handler names and handler code references as parameters. Passing "undef" instead of a code reference replaces the handler by a no-op. The following handlers can be set: Init Start Char End Final All other handlers are ignored. Calling setHandlers without parameters resets all handlers to no-ops. parse Parses the XML given. In contrast to XML::Parser's parse method, parse() only parses strings. Handler methods Init Called before parsing starts. You should perform any necessary initializations in Init. Start Called at the start of each XML node. See XML::Parser for details. Char Called for each character sequence. May be called multiple times for the characters contained in an XML node (even for every single character). Your implementation has to make sure that it captures all characters. End Called at the end of each XML node. See XML::Parser for details Comment See XML::Parser for details XMLDecl See XML::Parser for details Doctype See XML::Parser for details Final Called at the end of the parsing process. You should perform any necessary cleanup here. SEE ALSO XML::Parser COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Paul Kulchenko. All rights reserved. Copyright (C) 2008- Martin Kutter. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. This parser is based on "shallow parser" http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/REX.html Copyright (c) 1998, Robert D. Cameron. AUTHOR Paul Kulchenko (paulclinger@yahoo.com) Martin Kutter (martin.kutter@fen-net.de) Additional handlers supplied by Adam Leggett.