tosaiju has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Perl Monks,

Are there any modules or functionality to create a XML file from XPATH and Data?

Lets take we have a list of XPath and Data associated to this, is that possible to construct a well formed xml from this?

Thanks a lot for the help and guidence.

Kind Regards,

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Re: XPath to XML
by LanX (Saint) on May 17, 2013 at 16:55 UTC
    Hi tosaiju

    Could you please give us an example how this should ideally work?

    Like showing desired input & output?

    edit

    IIRC does XPath allows various wildcards on various axis to seek flexibly within the doc tree.

    Thats pretty complex or just impossible to use such incomplete information as a document definition.

    But if you don't allow wildcards your pretty close at defining how to put data into nested structures (AoH...). (something like Data::Diver comes to mind or just plain autovivification)

    So using a module which uses something like XPath to set Perl datastructures and exporting them to XML (e.g. see cpan for dump xml) could be a way to address this task.

    Cheers Rolf

    ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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      Thanks LanX for the update.

      lets take I have an input like below and related data,

      /bookstore/book@category='COOKING'
      /bookstore/book/title
      /bookstore/book/title@lang='en'
      /bookstore/book/author
      /bookstore/book/year
      /bookstore/book/price
      Any chance of getting an XML file like below,

      <book category="COOKING">
      <title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title>
      <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>
      <year>2005</year>
      <price>30.00</price>
      </book>

      I undersatnd Xpath generally works the otherway around and traversing XML file, but wondering any modules - which helps in constructing XML file from given XPath.

      Thanks,

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      something like as mentioned in below site
      http://translet.sourceforge.net/
      but this is in Java and the usage looks simple
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        Well, that usage is much simpler than what you posted but hey, if http://translet.sourceforge.net/ works use it

        I vaguely recall seeing that before, writing (tree) like that before , and my code practically already does that :P

        update: [cpan://xpath xml ] [cpan://xpath parser ] -> XML::XPathToXML - Generates XML document from XPath expressions

        See, I knew xsh had it :)

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Re: XPath to XML (xpath2html)
by Anonymous Monk on May 17, 2013 at 18:42 UTC
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