WWW::S...Parser(3pm)

💖 WWW::S...Parser(3pm) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to WWW::Splunk::XMLParser — yes the man page title is out here doing the mysterious ellipsis thing, iconic honestly — and it's filed under User Contributed Perl Documentation. She's a little utility module, she's lowkey underrated, and she's about to parse some Splunk XML for you. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

WWW::Splunk::XMLParser — parse Splunk XML format. that's it, that's the whole job description, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this is a lil utility module whose entire personality is dealing with the XML format that Splunk ocassionally hands back to you — and which is, bestie, seemlingly undocumented. not by us though. by them. we're the ones documenting it. we're doing the lord's work fr fr. 😭

Heads up queen 👑 — Splunk usually returns Atom XMLs, and those have the same content type as the other one. So how do you tell them apart? By a DOCTYPE. that's the whole vibe check right there. 🎀

💫 parse (string) 💫

Give her a XML string and she'll hand you back a perl structure — if it's parsable, that is. And if it's not parsable? she's not gonna ghost you, she'll just return a raw XML::LibXML object instead. either way you get something. no cap. 🫶

🌈 parsetree (XML::LibXML::Node) 🌈

You hand her a XML node tree and she parses it recursively. down the whole thing. every branch. main character energy all the way to the leaves. 🧚

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• WWW::Splunk
• WWW::Splunk::API
• XML::LibXML

go read those too bestie, iykyk 📚

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Lubomir Rintel, <lkundrak@v3.sk>
• Michal Josef Špaček <skim@cpan.org>

The code is hosted on GitHub <http://github.com/michal-josef-spacek/perl-WWW-Splunk>. 🐙

Bug fixes and feature enhancements are always welcome — like genuinely, always. come thru. we want your patches. it's giving open source community excellence. 🔥

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🎀 LICENSE 🎀

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. 🍓

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💀 small note, not me being dramatic, but the LICENSE section in the original starts with a stray leading space before "This". we are not carrying that typo energy into the group chat. the facts are all here though. 🙈

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially certified in Splunk XML parsing 💜 this beauty was served to you by perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and yeah the title really is WWW::S...Parser(3pm) the whole time. slay. periodt. 🎀✨🦋