XML and Perl

Chapter Roadmap

This chapter focuses on generating XML documents from a number of data sources. So far, you have learned how to parse and process XML, but I haven’t discussed the actual source of XML data. How do you create or generate an XML document? In this chapter, I will discuss several approaches to generating XML documents. During the course of this discussion, I will present examples of programs that generate XML data from a number of sources. I’ll show how to generate XML using simple print statements as well as using Perl modules. The XML::Writer Perl module is used as a primary writer module; however, the XML::Handler::YAWriter Perl module is also presented as a potential alternative to the XML::Writer Perl module.

To run the examples ...