NAME XML::Rabbit - Consume XML with Moose and xpath queries VERSION version 0.0.2 SYNOPSIS my $xhtml = W3C::XHTML->new( file => 'index.xhtml' ); print "Title: " . $xhtml->title . "\n"; print "First image source: " . $xhtml->body->images->[0]->src . "\n"; exit; package W3C::XHTML; use Moose; with 'XML::Rabbit::RootNode'; has '+namespace_map' => ( default => sub { { "xhtml" => "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" } }, ); has 'title' => ( isa => 'Str', traits => [qw(XPathValue)], xpath_query => '/xhtml:html/xhtml:head/xhtml:title', ); has 'body' => ( isa => 'W3C::XHTML::Body', traits => [qw(XPathObject)], xpath_query => '/xhtml:html/xhtml:body', ); has 'all_anchors_and_images' => ( traits => ['XPathObjectList'], xpath_query => '//xhtml:a|//xhtml:img', isa_map => { 'xhtml:a' => 'W3C::XHTML::Anchor', 'xhtml:img' => 'W3C::XHTML::Image', }, ); no Moose; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable(); package W3C::XHTML::Body; use Moose; with 'XML::Rabbit::Node'; has 'images' => ( isa => 'ArrayRef[W3C::XHTML::Image]', traits => [qw(XPathObjectList)], xpath_query => './/xhtml:img', ); no Moose; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable(); package W3C::XHTML::Image; use Moose; with 'XML::Rabbit::Node'; has 'src' => ( isa => 'Str', traits => [qw(XPathValue)], xpath_query => './@src', ); has 'alt' => ( isa => 'Str', traits => [qw(XPathValue)], xpath_query => './@alt', ); has 'title' => ( isa => 'Str', traits => [qw(XPathValue)], xpath_query => './@title', ); no Moose; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable(); package W3C::XHTML::Anchor; use Moose; with 'XML::Rabbit::Node'; has 'href' => ( isa => 'Str', traits => [qw(XPathValue)], xpath_query => './@src', ); has 'title' => ( isa => 'Str', traits => [qw(XPathValue)], xpath_query => './@title', ); no Moose; __PACKAGE__->meta->make_immutable(); 1; DESCRIPTION XML::Rabbit is a simple Moose-based base class you can use to make simple XPath-based XML extractors. Each attribute in your class is linked to an XPath query that is executed on your XML document when you request the value. Also notice that if you specify an xpath_query that can return multiple types, you need to specify "isa_map" instead of just specifying the types as a union type constraint in "isa". If you specify "isa_map" you should not specify "isa" aswell, as it will be overridden by the trait. The trait will wrap the type constraint union in an ArrayRef if the trait name is XPathObjectList and as a HashRef if the trait name is XPathObjectMap. As all the traits that end with List return array references, their "isa" must be an ArrayRef. The same is valid for the *Map traits, just that they return HashRef instead of ArrayRef. The namespace prefix used in "isa_map" MUST be specified in the "namespace_map". If a prefix is used in "isa_map" without a corresponding entry in "namespace_map" an exception will be thrown. CAVEATS Be aware of the syntax of XPath when used with namespaces. You should almost always define "namespace_map" when dealing with XML that use namespaces. Namespaces explicitly declared in the XML are usable with the prefix specified in the XML (except if you use "isa_map"). Be aware that a prefix must usually be declared for the default namespace (xmlns=...) to be able to use it in XPath queries. See the example above (on XHTML) for details. See "findnodes" in XML::LibXML::Node for more information. Because XML::Rabbit uses XML::LibXML's DOM parser it is limited to handling XML documents that can fit in available memory. Unfortunately there is no easy way around this, because XPath queries need to work on a tree model, and I am not aware of any way of doing that without keeping the document in memory. Luckily XML::LibXML's DOM implementation is written in C, so it should use much less memory than a pure Perl DOM parser. SEMANTIC VERSIONING This module uses semantic versioning concepts from . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The following people have helped to review or otherwise encourage me to work on this module. Chris Prather (perigrin) Matt S. Trout (mst) Stevan Little (stevan) SEE ALSO * XML::Toolkit * Moose * XML::LibXML SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc XML::Rabbit Websites * Search CPAN * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation * CPAN Ratings * CPAN Forum * RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker * CPANTS Kwalitee * CPAN Testers Results * CPAN Testers Matrix * Source Code Repository The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :) Bugs Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-xml-rabbit at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. AUTHOR Robin Smidsrød COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Robin Smidsrød. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.