1STAG-FLATTEN(1)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      STAG-FLATTEN(1)
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NAME

6       stag-flatten - turns stag data into a flat table
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SYNOPSIS

9         stag-flatten -c name -c person/name dept MyFile.xml
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DESCRIPTION

12       reads in a file in a stag format, and 'flattens' it to a tab-delimited
13       table format. given this data:
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15         (company
16          (dept
17           (name "special-operations")
18           (person
19            (name "james-bond"))
20           (person
21            (name "fred"))))
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23       the above command will return a two column table
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25         special-operations      james-bond
26         special-operations      fred
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28       If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the
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USAGE

32         stag-flatten [-p PARSER] [-c COLS] [-c COLS] NODE <file>
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ARGUMENTS

35       -p|parser FORMAT
36           FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext
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38           xml assumed as default
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40       -c|column COL1,COL2,COL3,..
41           the name of the columns/elements to write out
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43           this can be specified either with multiple -c arguments, or with a
44           comma-seperated (no spaces) list of column (terminal node) names
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47       -n|nest
48           if set, then the output will be a compress repeating values into
49           the same row; each cell in the table will be enclosed by {}, and
50           will contain a comma-delimited set of values
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SEE ALSO

53       Data::Stag
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