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LibXML cpan:WARRINGD last updated on 2019-11-07

NAME

LibXML - Perl 6 bindings to the libxml2 native library

SYNOPSIS

use LibXML::Document;
my LibXML::Document $doc .=  parse: :string('<Hello/>');
$doc.root.nodeValue = 'World!';
say $doc.Str;
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
# <Hello>World!</Hello>
say $doc<Hello>

my Version $library-version = LibXML.version;
my Version $module-version = LibXML.^ver;

DESCRIPTION

This module is an interface to libxml2, providing XML and HTML parsers with DOM, SAX and XMLReader interfaces, a large subset of DOM Layer 3 interface and a XML::XPath-like interface to XPath API of libxml2.

For further information, please check the following documentation:

DOM Objects

The nodes in the Document Object Model (DOM) are represented by the following classes (most of which "inherit" from LibXML::Node ):

• LibXML::Document - LibXML DOM attribute class

• LibXML::DocumentFragment - LibXML's DOM L2 Document Fragment implementation

• LibXML::Element - LibXML class for element nodes

• LibXML::Attr - LibXML attribute class

• LibXML::CDATA - LibXML class for DOM CDATA sections

• LibXML::Comment - LibXML class for comment DOM nodes

• LibXML::Dtd - LibXML frontend for DTD validation

• LibXML::Namespace - LibXML DOM namespaces (Inherits from LibXML::Item)

• LibXML::Node - LibXML DOM base node class

• LibXML::Text - LibXML text node class

• LibXML::PI - LibXML DOM processing instruction nodes

Container/Mapping classes

• LibXML::Attr::Map - LibXML DOM attribute map class

• LibXML::Node::List - Sibling Node Lists

• LibXML::Node::Set - XPath Node Sets

Parsing

• LibXML::Parser - LibXML Parser bindings

• LibXML::PushParser - LibXML Push Parser bindings

• LibXML::Reader - LibXML Reader (pull parser) bindings

XPath and Searching

• LibXML::XPath::Expression - XPath Compiled Expressions

• LibXML::XPath::Context - XPath Evaluation Contexts

• LibXML::Pattern - LibXML Patterns

• LibXML::RegExp - LibXML Regular Expression bindings

Validation

• LibXML::Schema - LibXML schema validation class

• LibXML::RelaxNG - LibXML RelaxNG validation class

Other

• LibXML::Native - LibXML native interface

• LibXML::ErrorHandling - LibXML class for Error handling

• LibXML::InputCallback - LibXML class for Input callback handling

PREREQUISITES

This module requires the libxml2 library to be installed. Please follow the instructions below based on your platform:

Debian Linux

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

Mac OS X

brew update
brew install libxml2

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This Raku module:

• is based on the Perl 5 XML::LibXML module; in particular, the test suite, and selected XS and C code.

• derives SelectorQuery() and SelectorQueryAll() methods from the Perl 5 XML::LibXML::QuerySelector module.

• also draws on an earlier attempt at a Perl 6 (nee Raku) port (XML::LibXML).

With thanks to: Christian Glahn, Ilya Martynov, Matt Sergeant, Petr Pajas, Shlomi Fish, Toby Inkster, Tobias Leich, Xliff.

VERSION

0.1.9

COPYRIGHT

2001-2007, AxKit.com Ltd.

2002-2006, Christian Glahn.

2006-2009, Petr Pajas.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.