XML::Ca...lizeXML(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for XML::CanonicalizeXML — headers show it as XML::Ca...lizeXML(3) because truncation is a thing 💅. The actual name is XML::CanonicalizeXML, and it's a Perl extension for inclusive (1.0 and 1.1) and exclusive canonicalization of XML using libxml2. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

use XML::CanonicalizeXML;

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the original literally labels this useage: — we're keeping that spelling exactly, because details are sacred. The call signature is:

canonicalize (xml, xpath, namespace, exclusive, with_comments)

Here's the group-chat breakdown, bestie:

• xml is the xml string to be canonicalized. 💖
• xpath is a string containing an xpath statement to the part of the xml document to be canonicalized, and it can optionally be null. See the examples provided with libxml2 for further details.
• namespace is a string containing a list of namespaces to be included (only used in exclusive canonicalization).
• exclusive is an int to specify exclusive canonicalization: 1 = exclusive, 0 = non-exclusive, 2 = exclusive v1.1.
• with_comments is an int specifying whether comments are included in the canonicalized xml (0 = comments not included).

the function returns a string containing the canonicalized xml. slay. ✨

🫶 EXPORT 🫶

None by default. iconic minimalism, honestly. 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• https://github.com/sjzasada/XML-CanonicalizeXML for GitHub project
• http://www.xmlsoft.org for full details of libxml2

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Stefan Zasada, <sjz@zasada.co.uk> with thanks to Mark Mc Keown. 🫶

🍓 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🍓

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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And the footer vibes: this page is from perl v5.42.2, dated 2025-06-30, and the header/manual name is XML::Ca...lizeXML(3) — that's the whole sign-off, bestie. 🎀