STAG-FLATTEN(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation STAG-FLATTEN(1)NAMEstag-flatten.pl - turns stag data into a flat table
SYNOPSISstag-flatten.pl-c name -c person/name dept MyFile.xml
DESCRIPTION
reads in a file in a stag format, and 'flattens' it to a tab-delimited
table format. given this data:
(company
(dept
(name "special-operations")
(person
(name "james-bond"))
(person
(name "fred"))))
the above command will return a two column table
special-operations james-bond
special-operations fred
If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the
cartesian product will be calculated
USAGEstag-flatten.pl [-p PARSER] [-c COLS] [-c COLS] NODE <file>
ARGUMENTS
-p|parser FORMAT
FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext
xml assumed as default
-c|column COL1,COL2,COL3,..
the name of the columns/elements to write out
this can be specified either with multiple -c arguments, or with a
comma-seperated (no spaces) list of column (terminal node) names
after a single -c
-n|nest
if set, then the output will be a compress repeating values into
the same row; each cell in the table will be enclosed by {}, and
will contain a comma-delimited set of values
SEE ALSO
Data::Stag
perl v5.14.1 2004-07-02 STAG-FLATTEN(1)
