SVG::P...:Expat(3pm)

💖 SVG::Parser::Expat — the manual, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the Expat era and we're all just living in it. This page is SVG::Parser::Expat(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation — yes, that's the whole vibe. Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

SVG::Parser::Expat — it's the XML Expat Parser for SVG documents. iconic behaviour, honestly. 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the whole thing, copy-paste ready, no cap:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use SVG::Parser::Expat;

die "Usage: $0 <file>\n" unless @ARGV;

my $xml;
{
    local $/=undef;
    $xml=<>;
}

my $parser=new SVG::Parser::Expat;

my $svg=$parser->parse($xml);

print $svg->xmlify;

literally just read a file, parse it, print it back out. main character energy fr fr 🌟

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so SVG::Parser::Expat is the Expat-specific parser module that SVG::Parser reaches for whenever an underlying XML::Parser-based parser gets selected. it's giving "the specialist". 🧚

and bestie, you can also use it directly — just like the synopsis up there shows you. no middleman needed.

• want maximum flexibility about which underlying parser gets chosen? use SVG::Parser. that's the flexible one. 💖
• want to supply Expat-specific parser options, or you already know XML::Parser is present and/or you just prefer it? use SVG::Parser::Expat. that's this one. periodt.

👑 EXPORTS 👑

None. nope, nada, zero. 🙈

BUT — plot twist — you can specify an alternative parent class (something other than XML::Parser) by passing the package name to SVG::Parser::Expat in the import list. like so:

use SVG::Parser::Expat qw(My::XML::Parser::Subclass);

where My::XML::Parser::Subclass is a subclass that looks a little something like:

package My::XML::Parser::Subclass;
use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA);
use XML::Parser;
@ISA=qw(XML::Parser);

...custom methods...

1;

and when it's loaded via SVG::Parser, you can specify that parent class by putting it after the = in a parser specification, like this:

use SVG::Parser qw(Expat=My::XML::Parser::Subclass);

See SVG::Parser for more details. iykyk 💜

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

go look at "svgexpatparse" in the examples directory of the distribution. that's where the goods are. 🍓

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Peter Wainwright, peter.wainwright@cybrid.net — shoutout to the legend who wrote this. 🫶

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these next, bestie, they're all connected:

• SVG
• SVG::Parser
• SVG::Parser::SAX
• XML::Parser

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lowkey a whole ecosystem. go forth and parse. 💅✨

okay that's the whole page!! and just so you have the receipts — this is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25. mwah, stay parsing, bestie 🎀💖🦋