new¶

Constructor.

As (almost) all SOAP::Lite constructors, new() returns the object called on when called as object method. This means that the following effectifely is a no-op if $obj is a object:

 $obj = $obj->new();

New accepts a single named parameter, "Handlers" with a hash ref as value:

 my $parser = XML::Parser::Lite->new(
    Handlers => {
        Start => sub { shift; print "start: @_\n" },
        Char => sub { shift; print "char: @_\n" },
        End => sub { shift; print "end: @_\n" },
    }
 );

The handlers given will be passed to setHandlers.

setHandlers¶

Sets (or resets) the parsing handlers. Accepts a hash with the handler names and handler code references as parameters. Passing "undef" instead of a code reference replaces the handler by a no-op.

The following handlers can be set:

 Init
 Start
 Char
 End
 Final
 CData
 Doctype
 Comment
 PI

All other handlers are ignored.

Calling setHandlers without parameters resets all handlers to no-ops.

parse¶

Parses the XML given. In contrast to XML::Parser's parse method, parse() only parses strings.

Init¶

Called before parsing starts. You should perform any necessary initializations in Init.

Start¶

Called at the start of each XML node. See XML::Parser for details.

Char¶

Called for each character sequence. May be called multiple times for the characters contained in an XML node (even for every single character). Your implementation has to make sure that it captures all characters.

End¶

Called at the end of each XML node. See XML::Parser for details

Comment¶

See XML::Parser for details

PI¶

See XMLDecl in XML::Parser for details, but also includes other processing instructions

Doctype¶

See XML::Parser for details

Final¶

Called at the end of the parsing process. You should perform any necessary cleanup here.