NAME
    XML::Saxtract - Streaming parse XML data into a result hash based upon a
    specification hash

VERSION
    version 1.00

SYNOPSIS
        use XML::Saxtract qw(saxtract_string saxtract_uri);

        my $xml = "<root id='1' />";
        my $spec = { '/root/@id' => rootId };

        my $result = saxtract_string( $xml, $spec );
        my $rootId = $result->{rootId};

        my $complex_xml = <<'XML';
        <root xmlns='http://abc' xmlns:d='http://def' d:id='1' name='root' d:other='abc'>
          <person id='1'>Lucas</person>
          <d:employee id='2'>Ali</d:employee>
          <person id='3'>Boo</person>
          <d:employee id='4'>Dude</d:employee>
        </root>
        XML

        # get a map of all the employees
        my $complex_spec = {
            'http://def' => 'k',
            '/root/k:employee' => {
                name => 'employees',
                type => 'map',
                key => 'name',
                spec => {
                    '' => sub {
                        my ($object, $value) = @_;
                        $object->{name} => $value;
                        $object->{email} => lc($value) . '@example.com';
                    },
                    '/@id' => 'id'
                }
            }
        };
        my $result = saxtract_string( $complex_xml, $complex_spec );
        foreach my $employee ( keys( %{$result->{employees}} ) ) {
            print( "$employee->{id}: $employee->{name} <$employee->{email}>\n" );
        }
        # Prints:
        # 2: Ali <ali@example.com>
        # 4: Dude <dude@example.com>

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides methods for SAX based (streaming) parsing of XML
    data into a result hash based upon a specification hash.

AUTHOR
    Lucas Theisen <lucastheisen@pastdev.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Lucas Theisen.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

