Parser:...le::Tree(3)

okay bestie, welcome to the Parser:...le::Tree(3) page — the User Contributed Perl Documentation moment for XML::Parser::Style::Tree. Yes, the manual name is literally doing that ellipsis thing, and we are keeping it. no cap 💅

💖 NAME 💖

XML::Parser::Style::Tree — a Tree style parser. That’s the whole name, clean and iconic. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here’s the group-chat recipe:

         use XML::Parser;
         my $p = XML::Parser->new(Style => 'Tree');
         my $tree = $p->parsefile('foo.xml');

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This module implements XML::Parser's Tree style parser. periodt. 🦋

When a document gets parsed, parse() hands back a parse tree for that document. Every node in the tree is a tag, content pair. Text nodes get a pseudo-tag of "0" plus the string that is their content. For elements, the content is an array reference: the first item is a (possibly empty) hash reference stuffed with attributes, and the rest of the array is a sequence of tag-content pairs representing the element’s content. iykyk 🌈

So for example the result of parsing:

         <foo><head id="a">Hello <em>there</em></head><bar>Howdy<ref/></bar>do</foo>

would be:

                    Tag   Content
         ==================================================================
         [foo, [{}, head, [{id => "a"}, 0, "Hello ",  em, [{}, 0, "there"]],
                     bar, [         {}, 0, "Howdy",  ref, [{}]],
                       0, "do"
               ]
         ]

The root document "foo" has 3 children: a "head" element, a "bar" element, and the text "do". After the empty attribute hash, those are represented in its contents by 3 tag-content pairs. ate 💚

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