Perl and XML: XML Processing with Perl (Paperback)

1. Perl and XML
Why Use Perl with XML?
XML Is Simple with XML::Simple
XML Processors
A Myriad of Modules
Keep in Mind...
XML Gotchas

2. An XML Recap
A Brief History of XML
Markup, Elements, and Structure
Namespaces
Spacing
Entities
Unicode, Character Sets, and Encodings
The XML Declaration
Processing Instructions and Other Markup
Free-Form XML and Well-Formed Documents
Declaring Elements and Attributes
Schemas
Transformations

3. XML Basics: Reading and Writing
XML Parsers
XML::Parser
Stream-Based Versus Tree-Based Processing
Putting Parsers to Work
XML::LibXML
XML::XPath
Document Validation
XML::Writer
Character Sets and Encodings

4. Event Streams
Working with Streams
Events and Handlers
The Parser as Commodity
Stream Applications
XML::PYX
XML::Parser

5. SAX
SAX Event Handlers
DTD Handlers
External Entity Resolution
Drivers for Non-XML Sources
A Handler Base Class
XML::Handler::YAWriter as a Base Handler Class
XML::SAX: The Second Generation

6. Tree Processing
XML Trees
XML::Simple
XML::Parser's Tree Mode
XML::SimpleObject
XML::TreeBuilder
XML::Grove

7. DOM
DOM and Perl
DOM Class Interface Reference
XML::DOM
XML::LibXML

8. Beyond Trees: XPath, XSLT, and More
Tree Climbers
XPath
XSLT
Optimized Tree Processing

9. RSS, SOAP, and Other XML Applications
XML Modules
XML::RSS
XML Programming Tools
SOAP::Lite

10. Coding Strategies
Perl and XML Namespaces
Subclassing
Converting XML to HTML with XSLT
A Comics Index