XML::Compile

This page is dedicated to Perl's XML::Compile distribution, and its friends.

XML::Compile translates XML data-structures into Perl's internal data-structures (usually nested hashes) and reverse, under control of a schema. The module does not teach you how to write schema's. Value validation is optional.

The companion modules implement SOAP interaction respectively a SOAP daemon. Only the latter may be platform dependent (limited to Unixes).

• Browse the combined documentation in html.
• List of all modules

XML::Compile requires a recent version of XML::LibXML, which on its turn depends on a recent version of libxml2. Many Linux distribitions do not contain a sufficiently new release of that library and must therefore be upgraded.

• Manual pages are enclosed in the released modules
• Paper "XML und Perl" in the German $foo Perl Magazin Summer 2012: read in German (PDF, as published) or in English (HTML, original).
• Overview on the XML::Compile suite, and how to create in a simple way your own distribution including schema's. Presentation helt at YAPC::Europe 2008. OpenOffice ODP and PowerPoint PPT.
• Presentation on XML::Compile(::SOAP) at YAPC::Europe 2007, Slides and web-pages.
• Lightning-talk about XML::Compile at YAPC::Europe 2006, as OpenOffice ODP and PowerPoint PPT.

I have given many more presentations about the subject, on later Workshops and YAPC's, but the content of those presentations did not differ enough to add much to above list.

Please post questions or ideas to the mailinglist.
For life contact with other developers, visit the #xml-compile channel on IRC.

• Mark Overmeer: design and implementation of close to all code.