#
# SAX version of XML::Template. Advantages over DOM: Doesn't have to load
# the entire thing into memory, and you can chain filters. Disadvantages:
-# Slightly kludgier interface.
+# Slightly kludgier interface, and you won't get a DOM tree out.
#
# Differences from the DOM version:
#
# in the stream, usually between a parser and a writer (ie.
# parser -> XML::TemplateSAX::Handler -> writer). process_file works as
# before, but it returns a _string_, not a DOM tree.
-# - You can no longer insert a DOM tree. Instead, what you have is -- FIXME:
-# figure out this :-)
+# - You can no longer insert a DOM tree, naturally. Instead, you can set up
+# an XML::TemplateSAX::Buffer, let it gobble up your data, and send it
+# in the way you'd insert a DOM tree. process_file_to_buffer does this
+# transparently for you, returning a buffer you can give in. (In theory,
+# one could avoid the buffering and just defer the parsing/filtering until
+# it's needed, but Expat seems non-reentrant, which means starting a parser
+# from within a begin_element callback blows up.)
#
+use strict;
+use warnings;
use XML::SAX::Expat;
use XML::SAX::Writer;
use XML::TemplateSAX::Buffer;
package XML::TemplateSAX;
-sub process_file {
- my ($filename, $obj, $clean) = @_;
+sub process_file_to_handler {
+ my ($filename, $handler, $obj, $clean) = @_;
$clean = 1 unless (defined($clean));
- my ($writer, $cleaner, $filter, $parser);
+ my ($cleaner, $filter, $parser);
my $str = '';
- # FIXME: hardcoding expat = not good?
- $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output => \$str);
-
if ($clean) {
- $cleaner = XML::TemplateSAX::Cleaner->new(Handler => $writer, Content => $obj);
+ $cleaner = XML::TemplateSAX::Cleaner->new(Handler => $handler);
$filter = XML::TemplateSAX::Handler->new(Handler => $cleaner, Content => $obj);
} else {
- $filter = XML::TemplateSAX::Handler->new(Handler => $writer, Content => $obj);
+ $filter = XML::TemplateSAX::Handler->new(Handler => $handler, Content => $obj);
}
+ # FIXME: hardcoding expat = not good?
$parser = XML::SAX::Expat->new(Handler => $filter);
$parser->parse_file($filename);
return $str;
}
+sub process_file {
+ my ($filename, $obj, $clean) = @_;
+
+ my $str = '';
+ my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new(Output => \$str);
+
+ process_file_to_handler($filename, $writer, $obj, $clean);
+
+ return $str;
+}
+
+sub process_file_to_buffer {
+ my ($filename, $obj, $clean) = @_;
+
+ my $buffer = XML::TemplateSAX::Buffer->new;
+ process_file_to_handler($filename, $buffer, $obj, $clean);
+
+ return $buffer;
+}
+
+sub alternate {
+ my ($tag, $array, @elems) = @_;
+
+ my $i = 0;
+ my $num = scalar @elems;
+
+ for my $ref (@$array) {
+ if (defined($ref)) {
+ $ref->{$tag} = $elems[$i++ % $num];
+ }
+ }
+
+ return $array;
+}
+
1;