Hi Monks,

I'm trying to use XML::SAX to modify parts of an XHTML document, however all my attempts have failed.

Here is what I'm trying to do: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl 
    package MyHandler;
    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use base qw(XML::SAX::Base);
    use Data::Dumper;

    sub start_element {
        my $self = shift;
        my $data = shift;

        if( $data->{LocalName} eq 'span') {
            $data->{LocalName} = 'naps';
        }
        
        $self->SUPER::start_element($data); # GOOD (and easy) !
        #print Dumper($data); 
    }

    1;

    #============================
    #Main programm
    #============================
    use strict;
    use warnings;

    use XML::SAX::ParserFactory;
    use XML::SAX::Writer;

    my $out;

    my $o = XML::SAX::Writer->new( Output => \$out );
    my $h = MyHandler->new( Handler => $o );
    my $p = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->parser(Handler => $h);

    my $data;
    { local undef $/ }; $data = <DATA>;
    $p->parse_string( $data );
    print $out;


    __DATA__
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:wicket="http://wi
+cket.apache.org/dtds.data/wicket-xhtml1.4-strict.dtd">
    <body>
    <wicket:panel>
        <form wicket:id="mvpForm">
            <span>Edit Information: </span>
            <input type="checkbox" wicket:id="editForm"/>

            <span>Name: </span>
            <span wicket:id="name"></span>
            <input type="text" wicket:id="nameEdit"/>
                                    
            <span>Last Name: </span>
            <span wicket:id="lastName"></span>
            <input type="text" wicket:id="lastNameEdit"/>
                                    
            <span>DOB: </span>
            <span wicket:id="dob"></span>
            <input type="text" wicket:id="dobEdit"/>
                                    

            <span>Occupation: </span>
            <span wicket:id="occupation"></span>
            <input type="text" wicket:id="occupationEdit"/>
                                    

            <span>Gender: </span>
            <span wicket:id="gender"></span>
            <span wicket:id="genderEdit"/>
                                    
            <input type="submit" wicket:id="submit"/>

        </form>
    </wicket:panel>
    </body>
    </html>

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The basic idea is to change every "span" to a "naps" and write the resulting modified XML to STDOUT. Also, it'd be nice to see if its possible to merge xml chunks using SAX, in other words, if I found a particular element that gets expanded to something else, how can I merge it with the output going to STDOUT? E.g. From: 
    <xmltag>
        <expandable/>
    </xmltag>

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To: 
    <xmltag>
        <expanded>
            This is an expanded element
        </expanded>
    </xmltag>

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Thanks.

PS

I'm crossposting this on stackoverflow

In reply to Using Perl XML::SAX to modify XML documents by dryajov

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