NAME Catmandu::XSD - Modules for handling XML data with XSD compilation SYNOPSIS ## Converting XML to YAML/JSON/CSV/etc # Compile an XSD schema file and parse one shiporder.xml file catmandu convert XSD --root '{}shiporder' --schemas demo/order/*.xsd to YAML < shiporder.xml # Same as above but parse more than one file into an array of records catmandu convert XSD --root '{}shiporder' --schemas demo/order/*.xsd --files 'data/*.xml' to YAML # Same as above but all array of records are in a XML container file catmandu convert XSD --root '{}shiporder' --schemas demo/order/*.xsd --xpath '/Container/List//Record/Payload/*' to YAML < data/container.xml ## Convert an YAML/JSON/CSV into XML validated against an XSD schemas # Convert one shiporder YAML to XML catmandu convert YAML to XSD --root '{}shiporder' --schemas demo/order/*.xsd < shiporder.YAML # Same as above but store multiple shiporders in the YAML into a separate file catmandu convert YAML to XSD --root '{}shiporder' --schemas demo/order/*.xsd --split 1 < shiporder.YAML # Same as above but use template toolkit to pack the XML into an container # (The xml record is stored in the 'xml' key which can be retrieved in the # template by [% xml %]) catmandu convert YAML to XSD --root '{}shiporder' --schemas demo/order/*.xsd --template_before t/xml_header.tt --template t/xml_record.tt --template t/xml_footer.tt < shiporder.YAML ## Example documents # Show an example how a valid XML document needs to be structured for an # XSD scheme. catmandu convert XSD --root {}shiporder --schemas "t/demo/order/*xsd" --example 1 to YAML DESCRIPTION Catmandu::XSD contains modules for handling XML data within the Catmandu framework. Parsing and serializing is based on XML::Compile. There are two modules available for handling XML data in the Catmandu framework: Catmandu::XML and Catmandu::XSD. The former one can be used when no XML schema is available for the data. It provides a simple interface to read in XML data and transform it to other formats. Because Catmandu::XML doesn't depend on an XSD schema, it can't know which fields in the input XML files are sequences or single value elements. Each record is parsed on its own. A record with content: test will be parsed into a YAML structure: catmandu XML to YAML < test.xml -- bar: test A record with content: test test will be parsed into a Perl structure: catmandu XML to YAML < test2.xml -- bar: - test - test In the first case 'bar' will contain a string, in the second case an array. This might no be what you want in some programming projects. E.g. when you need the 'bar' field to be always an array of values, then you an XSD schema file is required containing the exact structure of the XML document: test.xsd: And now the test.xml and test2.xml can be parsed with help of Catmandu::XSD: catmandu XSD --root '{}foo' --schemas test.xsd to YAML < test.xml -- bar: - test catmandu XSD --root '{}foo' --schemas test.xsd to YAML < test2.xml -- bar: - test - test WILDCARDS Some XSD Schema allow for any or anyAttribute specifications in the schema. The Catmandu::XSD modules can't guess in these cases what the schema implementation is. These nodes will be parsed as XML::LibXML::Nodes in the resulting documents. Catmandu output formats such as Catmandu::Exporter::JSON can't handle these XML::LibXML::Node nodes. You have to implement yourself a Catmandu::Fix to translate these values in to plain string, array or hash elements. But in general a round trip should be problematic: catmandu XSD --root ... --schema wildcard.xsd to XSD --root ... --schema wildcard.xsd < data.xml MIXED ELEMENTS ComplexType and ComplexContent in the XSD schema can be declared with the attribute. This means that in the XML documents simple text and XML elements can be mixed as in: Hello, I'm John how can I help you? In these cases it is not know if the elements are required as an hash or should be ignored. By defaults Catmandu::XSD will parse these elements as XML::LibXML::Nodes documents. This behavious can be changed by setting the 'mixed' flag: # All mixed elements will be XML::LibXML::Node-s catmandu XSD --root ... --schema mixed.xsd < data.xml # The mixed elements will be ignored, only the text will survive # # Hello, I'm John how can I help you? # # => Hello, I'm John how can I help you? catmandu XSD --root ... --schema mixed.xsd --mixed TEXTUAL < data.xml # The mixed text will be ignored, only the elements will survive # # Hello, I'm John how can I help you? # # => { name => 'John' , bold => 'help' } catmandu XSD --root ... --schema mixed.xsd --mixed STRUCTURAL < data.xml # The mixed elements will be a plain XML fragment string # # Hello, I'm John how can I help you? # # => $r = 'Hello, I'm John how can I help you?' catmandu XSD --root ... --schema mixed.xsd --mixed XML_STRING < data.xml MODULES Catmandu::Importer::XSD Parse and validate XML data using an XSD file for structural data Catmandu::Importer::XSD Serialize and validate XML data using an XSD file for structural data BUGS, QUESTIONS, HELP Use the github issue tracker for any bug reports or questions on this module: https://github.com/LibreCat/Catmandu-XSD/issues DISCLAIMER This module is based on XML::Compile and the Catmandu framework. XML::Compile is the workhorse that forms the core of this module to compile XSD file into parser and serializers. Catmandu is used to transform parsed XML into any format you like. Catmandu contains a simple DSL languages called Catmandu::Fix to create small scripts to manipulate data. The Catmandu toolkit is used by many university libraries to process metadata collections. For more information on Catmandu visit: http://librecat.org/Catmandu/ or follow the blog posts at: https://librecatproject.wordpress.com/ AUTHOR Patrick Hochstenbach , patrick.hochstenbach at ugent.be COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. SEE ALSO XML::Compile , Catmandu , Template , Catmandu::XML