Free mini software for linux

Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML and XML-like data files in your application without requiring large non-standard libraries. The project only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler (GCC works, as do most vendors ANSI C compilers) and a make program.
Main features:
- Reading of UTF-8 and UTF-16 and writing of UTF-8 encoded XML files and strings.
- Data is stored in a linked-list tree structure, preserving the XML data hierarchy.
- Supports arbitrary element names, attributes, and attribute values with no preset limits, just available memory.
- Supports integer, real, opaque ("cdata"), and text data types in "leaf" nodes.
- Functions for creating, indexing, and managing trees of data.
- "Find" and "walk" functions for easily locating and navigating trees of data.
Enhancements:
- This version adds a SAX API, more convenience functions, a user data pointer to the mxml_node_t structure, and improved HTML and new man page output from mxmldoc.
- This release also offers relaxed LGPL licensing that allows static linking.

XML::Mini is a Perl implementation of the XML::Mini XML create/parse interface.

SYNOPSIS

use XML::Mini::Document;

use Data::Dumper;


###### PARSING XML #######

# create a new object
my $xmlDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new();

# init the doc from an XML string
$xmlDoc->parse($XMLString);

# You may use the toHash() method to automatically
# convert the XML into a hash reference
my $xmlHash = $xmlDoc->toHash();

print Dumper($xmlHash);


# You can also manipulate the elements like directly, like this:

# Fetch the ROOT element for the document
# (an instance of XML::Mini::Element)
my $xmlRoot = $xmlDoc->getRoot();

# play with the element and its children
# ...
my $topLevelChildren = $xmlRoot->getAllChildren();

foreach my $childElement (@{$topLevelChildren})
{
# ...
}


###### CREATING XML #######

# Create a new document from scratch

my $newDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new();

# This can be done easily by using a hash:
my $h = {
spy => {
id => 007,
type => SuperSpy,
name => James Bond,
email => mi5@london.uk,
address => Wherever he is needed most,
},
};

$newDoc->fromHash($h);



# Or new XML can also be created by manipulating
#elements directly:

my $newDocRoot = $newDoc->getRoot();

# create the < ? xml ?> header
my $xmlHeader = $newDocRoot->header(xml);
# add the version
$xmlHeader->attribute(version, 1.0);

my $person = $newDocRoot->createChild(person);

my $name = $person->createChild(name);
$name->createChild(first)->text(John);
$name->createChild(last)->text(Doe);

my $eyes = $person->createChild(eyes);
$eyes->attribute(color, blue);
$eyes->attribute(number, 2);

# output the document
print $newDoc->toString();
This example would output :
< ?xml version="1.0"? >
< person>
< name>
< first>
John
< /first>
< last>
Doe
< /last>
< /name>
< eyes color="blue" number="2" />
< /person>

XML::Mini is a set of Perl classes that allow you to access XML data and create valid XML output with a tree-based hierarchy of elements. The MiniXML API has both Perl and PHP implementations.

It provides an easy, object-oriented interface for manipulating XML documents and their elements. It is currently being used to send requests and understand responses from remote servers in Perl or PHP applications. An XML::Mini based parser is now being tested within the RPC::XML framework.

XML::Mini does not require any external libraries or modules and is pure Perl. If available, XML::Mini will use the Text::Balanced module in order to escape limitations of the regex-only approach (eg "cross-nested" tag parsing).
The Mini.pm module includes a number of variables you may use to tweak XML::Minis behavior. These include:

$XML::Mini::AutoEscapeEntities - when greater than 0, the values set for nodes are automatically escaped, thus $element->text(4 is > 3) will set the contents of the appended node to 4 is > 3. Default setting is 1.

$XML::Mini::IgnoreWhitespaces - when greater than 0, extraneous whitespaces will be ignored (maily useful when parsing). Thus Hello There will be parsed as containing a text node with contents Hello There instead of Hello There . Default setting is 1.

$XML::Mini::CaseSensitive - when greater than 0, element names are treated as case sensitive. Thus, $element->getElement(subelement) and $element->getElement(SubElement) will be equivalent. Defaults to 0.

XML::Mini::Element is a Perl implementation of the XML::Mini Element API.

SYNOPSIS

use XML::Mini::Document;

my $xmlDoc = XML::Mini::Document->new();

# Fetch the ROOT element for the document
# (an instance of XML::Mini::Element)
my $xmlElement = $xmlDoc->getRoot();

# Create an tag
my $xmlHeader = $xmlElement->header(xml);

# add the version to get<<less