1BufferText(3)         User Contributed Perl Documentation        BufferText(3)
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NAME

6       XML::Filter::BufferText - Filter to put all characters() in one event
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SYNOPSIS

9         my $h = SomeHandler->new;
10         my $f = XML::Filter::BufferText->new( Handler => $h );
11         my $p = SomeParser->new( Handler => $f );
12         $p->parse;
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DESCRIPTION

15       This is a very simple filter. One common cause of grief (and programmer
16       error) is that XML parsers aren't required to provide character events
17       in one chunk. They can, but are not forced to, and most don't. This
18       filter does the trivial but oft-repeated task of putting all characters
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21       Note that this won't help you cases such as:
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23         <foo> blah <!-- comment --> phubar </foo>
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25       In the above case, given the interleaving comment, there will be two
26       "character()" events. This may be worked around in the future if there
27       is demand for it.
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29       An interesting way to use this filter, instead of telling users to use
30       it, is to return it from your handler's constructor, already configured
31       and all.  That'll make the buffering totally transparent to them
32       ("XML::SAX::Writer" does that).
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AUTHOR

35       Robin Berjon, robin@knowscape.com
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38       Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Robin Berjon. All rights reserved. This program
39       is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
40       same terms as Perl itself.
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SEE ALSO

43       XML::SAX::*, XML::Generator::*, XML::Handler::*, XML::Filter::*
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47perl v5.16.3                      2003-07-04                     BufferText(3)
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