1XML::SAX::PurePerl(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationXML::SAX::PurePerl(3)
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6 XML::SAX::PurePerl - Pure Perl XML Parser with SAX2 interface
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9 use XML::Handler::Foo;
10 use XML::SAX::PurePerl;
11 my $handler = XML::Handler::Foo->new();
12 my $parser = XML::SAX::PurePerl->new(Handler => $handler);
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16 This module implements an XML parser in pure perl. It is written around
17 the upcoming perl 5.8's unicode support and support for multiple
18 document encodings (using the PerlIO layer), however it has been ported
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21 The SAX2 API is described in detail at
22 http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-xml/, in the CVS archive, under
23 libxml-perl/docs. Hopefully those documents will be in a better
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26 Please refer to the SAX2 documentation for how to use this module - it
27 is merely a front end to SAX2, and implements nothing that is not in
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32 XML::SAX::PurePerl is slow. Very slow. I suggest you use something else
33 in fact. However it is great as a fallback parser for XML::SAX, where
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36 Currently lots, probably. At the moment the weakest area is parsing
37 DOCTYPE declarations, though the code is in place to start doing this.
38 Also parsing parameter entity references is causing me much confusion,
39 since it's not exactly what I would call trivial, or well documented in
40 the XML grammar. XML documents with internal subsets are likely to
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47 Matt Sergeant, matt@sergeant.org. Copyright 2001.
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49 Please report all bugs to the Perl-XML mailing list at
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53 This is free software. You may use it or redistribute it under the same
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