Hello,
there are some modules aimed to make the xml generation easy -
XML::Generator,
XML::Writer and XML:Writer::Simple, for example.

For my needs, these are to "verbose" and there is too much code necessary
to express the structure of the resulting xml. So I wrote a piece of code
which uses a bit more declarative approach. If somebody finds it useful,
I'd put it on CPAN - or submit it to an existing module.

Let's look at this code:

$str = element "outer", content {
element "inner" => content {
attribute id => 1;
element "abc", undef;
opt_element "def", $value;
element "ghi", "bb & cc";
}
}

provided that $value contains "dummy", $str contains the following result:

Martin Busik wrote:

This looks really interesting. What would hold me back, personally, is
integrating it into other methods. For example, I usually have a stock, or
template, XML file, and then use XML::Twig to read that, add/remove/modify
what I need to, and write it out (to a file, to stdout for apache to send,
whatever). If I could do something like:

$twig->insert_decl('after',
twig_element "out", content {
#...
});

Hi Darin,

I'm haven't used XML::Twig before, what is the meaning of
insert_decl('after',xxx) ?
May be, you can give me an another example?

"Martin Busik" wrote:

I recommend to make this a setting for each, i.e.

undef -> generate empty element, or no-op, or exception
"" -> generate empty element, or no-op, or exception

Martin Busik wrote:

On Mar 18, 2:38 am, "Martin Busik" wrote: