XML::LibXML::Common(3pUser Contributed Perl DocumentatXML::LibXML::Common(3pm)NAMEXML::LibXML::Common - Constants and Character Encoding Routines
SYNOPSIS
use XML::LibXML::Common;
$encodedstring = encodeToUTF8( $name_of_encoding, $sting_to_encode );
$decodedstring = decodeFromUTF8($name_of_encoding, $string_to_decode );
DESCRIPTIONXML::LibXML::Common defines constants for all node types and provides
interface to libxml2 charset conversion functions.
Since XML::LibXML use their own node type definitions, one may want to
use XML::LibXML::Common in its compatibility mode:
Exporter TAGS
use XML::LibXML::Common qw(:libxml);
":libxml" tag will use the XML::LibXML Compatibility mode, which
defines the old 'XML_' node-type definitions.
use XML::LibXML::Common qw(:gdome);
":gdome" tag will use the XML::GDOME Compatibility mode, which defines
the old 'GDOME_' node-type definitions.
use XML::LibXML::Common qw(:w3c);
This uses the nodetype definition names as specified for DOM.
use XML::LibXML::Common qw(:encoding);
This tag can be used to export only the charset encoding functions of
XML::LibXML::Common.
Exports
By default the W3 definitions as defined in the DOM specifications and
the encoding functions are exported by XML::LibXML::Common.
Encoding functions
To encode or decode a string to or from UTF-8, XML::LibXML::Common
exports two functions, which provide interfact to the encoding support
in "libxml2". Which encodings are supported by these functions depends
on how "libxml2" was compiled. UTF-16 is always supported and on most
installations, ISO encodings are supported as well.
This interface was useful for older versions of Perl. Since Perl >= 5.8
provides similar funcions via the "Encode" module, it is probably a
good idea to use those instead.
encodeToUTF8
$encodedstring = encodeToUTF8( $name_of_encoding, $sting_to_encode );
The function will convert a byte string from the specified encoding
to an UTF-8 encoded character string.
decodeToUTF8
$decodedstring = decodeFromUTF8($name_of_encoding, $string_to_decode );
This function converts an UTF-8 encoded character string to a
specified encoding. Note that the conversion can raise an error if
the given string contains characters that cannot be represented in
the target encoding.
Both these functions report their errors on the standard error. If an
error occours the function will croak(). To catch the error information
it is required to call the encoding function from within an eval block
in order to prevent the entire script from being stopped on encoding
error.
A note on history
Before XML::LibXML 1.70, this class was available as a separate CPAN
distribution, intended to provide functionality shared between
XML::LibXML, XML::GDOME, and possibly other modules. Since there seems
to be no progress in this direction, we decided to merge
XML::LibXML::Common 0.13 and XML::LibXML 1.70 to one CPAN distribution.
The merge also naturally eliminates a practical and urgent problem
experienced by many XML::LibXML users on certain platforms, namely
misterious misbehavior of XML::LibXML occurring if the installed (often
pre-packaged) version of XML::LibXML::Common was compiled against an
older version of libxml2 than XML::LibXML.
AUTHORS
Matt Sergeant, Christian Glahn, Petr Pajas
VERSION
1.70
COPYRIGHT
2001-2007, AxKit.com Ltd.
2002-2006, Christian Glahn.
2006-2009, Petr Pajas.
perl v5.10.0 2009-10-07 XML::LibXML::Common(3pm)
