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XMLPrettyPrint: Simple Xml Pretty Print In Perl

12.02.2005

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### begin_: file metadata
    ### <region-file_info>
    ### main:
    ###   - name    : XMLPrettyPrint: simple xml pretty print in perl
    ###     desc    : use perl with XML::Twig library to print indented xml
    ###     date    : created="Thu 2005-12-01 11:08:15"
    ###     last    : lastmod="Thu 2005-12-01 11:22:34"
    ###     lang    : perl
    ###     tags    : perl xml indent formatted pretty string cfPrettyPrint
    ### </region-file_info>

### begin_: init perl
    use strict;
    use warnings;
    use XML::Twig;

### begin_: init vars
    my  $sXML  = join "", (<DATA>);

    ### init params
    my  $params = [qw(none nsgmls nice indented record record_c)];
    my  $sPrettyFormat  = $params->[3] || 'none';

### begin_: process
    my  $twig= new XML::Twig;
    $twig->set_indent(" "x4);
    $twig->parse( $sXML );
    $twig->set_pretty_print( $sPrettyFormat );
    $sXML      = $twig->sprint;

### begin_: output
    print $sXML;

### begin_: sample data
    1;
    __END__
<table><tr age="35" >
<fname>Homer</fname>
<lname>Simpson</lname></tr>
<tr age="33" >
<fname>Barney</fname>
<lname>Rubble</lname></tr>
<tr age="29" >
<fname>Betty</fname>
<lname>Rubble</lname></tr></table>

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