1XMLPRETTY(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation XMLPRETTY(1)
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6 xmlpretty - XML pretty printer
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9 xmlpretty [--options] [filename]
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12 xmlpretty is the commandline interface to XML::Handler::YAWriter,
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15 xmlpretty has several methods to add human readablitiy.
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17 If you want to add readablity without adding so-called ignorable
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25 If you do not want to process the file further, but only want it human
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33 You may use YAWriter to clean whitespace from XML documents. This may
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47 AddHiddenNewline boolean
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60 This option will cause start_document, processing_instruction and
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85 SAX1 boolean (not yet implemented)
86 Output only SAX1 compilant eventstrings
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89 Automatic recoding between 8bit and 16bit does not yet work correctly !
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91 I have Perl-5.6 at home and here I can specify "use utf8;" in the right
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99 "Derksen, Eduard (Enno), CSCIO" <enno@att.com> helped me with the
100 Escape hash and gave quite a lot of usefull comments.
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103 perl and XML::Parser::PerlSAX
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