XML::Dumper - Perl module for dumping Perl objects from/to XML
# Convert Perl code to XML
use XML::Dumper;
my $dump = new XML::Dumper;
$data = [
{
first => 'Jonathan',
last => 'Eisenzopf',
email => 'eisen@pobox.com'
},
{
first => 'Larry',
last => 'Wall',
email => 'larry@wall.org'
}
];
$xml = $dump->pl2xml($perl);
# Convert XML to Perl code
use XML::Dumper;
my $dump = new XML::Dumper;
# some XML
my $xml = <<XML;
<perldata>
<scalar>foo</scalar>
</perldata>
XML
# load Perl data structure from dumped XML
$data = $dump->xml2pl($Tree);
XML::Dumper dumps Perl data to a structured XML format.
XML::Dumper can also read XML data that was previously dumped
by the module and convert it back to Perl.
This is done via the following 2 methods:
XML::Dumper::pl2xml
XML::Dumper::xml2pl
Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>
Chris Thorman <ct@ignitiondesign.com>
L.M.Orchard <deus_x@pobox.com>
DeWitt Clinton <dewitt@eziba.com>
perl(1), XML::Parser(3).
