Font::TTF::XMLparse(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentatioFont::TTF::XMLparse(3)NAMEFont::TTF::XMLparse - provides support for XML parsing. Requires Expat
module XML::Parser::Expat
SYNOPSIS
use Font::TTF::Font;
use Font::TTF::XMLparse;
$f = Font::TTF::Font->new;
read_xml($f, $ARGV[0]);
$f->out($ARGV[1]);
DESCRIPTION
This module contains the support routines for parsing XML and
generating the Truetype font structures as a result. The module has
been separated from the rest of the package in order to reduce the
dependency that this would bring, of the whole package on XML::Parser.
This way, people without the XML::Parser can still use the rest of the
package.
The package interacts with another package through the use of a context
containing and element 'receiver' which is an object which can possibly
receive one of the following messages:
XML_start
This message is called when an open tag occurs. It is called with
the context, tag name and the attributes. The return value has no
meaning.
XML_end
This messages is called when a close tag occurs. It is called with
the context, tag name and attributes (held over from when the tag
was opened). There are 3 possible return values from such a
message:
undef This is the default return value indicating that default
processing should occur in which either the current element
on the tree, or the text of this element should be stored
in the parent object.
$context
This magic value marks that the element should be deleted
from the parent. Nothing is stored in the parent. (This
rather than '' is used to allow 0 returns.)
anything
Anything else is taken as the element content to be stored
in the parent.
In addition, the context hash passed to these messages contains the
following keys:
xml This is the expat xml object. The context is also available as
$context->{'xml'}{' mycontext'}. But that is a long winded way of
not saying much!
font
This is the base object that was passed in for XML parsing.
receiver
This holds the current receiver of parsing events. It may be set in
associated application to adjust which objects should receive
messages when. It is also stored in the parsing stack to ensure
that where an object changes it during XML_start, that that same
object that received XML_start will receive the corresponding
XML_end
stack
This is the parsing stack, used internally to hold the current
receiver and attributes for each element open, as a complete
hierarchy back to the root element.
tree
This element contains the storage tree corresponding to the parent
of each element in the stack. The default action is to push undef
onto this stack during XML_start and then to resolve this, either
in the associated application (by changing $context->{'tree'}[-1])
or during XML_end of a child element, by which time we know whether
we are dealing with an array or a hash or what.
text
Character processing is to insert all the characters into the text
element of the context for available use later.
METHODSPOD ERRORS
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perl v5.14.0 2009-01-21 Font::TTF::XMLparse(3)
