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# XML/SMART VERSION 1.4 #
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XML::Smart - A Smart, easy and powerful way to access/create XML files/data.

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# DESCRIPTION #
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This module has an easy way to access/create XML data. It's based on the HASH
tree that is made of the XML data, and enable a dynamic access to it with the
Perl syntax for Hashe and Array, without needing to care if you have a Hashe or an
Array in the tree. In other words, B<each point in the tree work as a Hash and
an Array at the same time>!

You also have extra resources, like a search for nodes by attribute, selection
of an attribute value in each multiple node,  change the returned format, etc...

The module alson handle automatically binary data (encoding/decoding to/from base64),
CDATA (like contents with <tags>) and Unicode. It can be used to create XML files,
load XML from the Web (just pasting an URL as a file path) and it has an easy
way to send XML data through socket, just adding the length of the data in
the <?xml?> header.

You can use I<XML::Smart> with L<XML::Parser>, or with the 2 standart parsers of
XML::Smart:

** See POD for documentation and examples!

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# INSTALLATION #
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To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

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# DEPENDENCIES #
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Object::MultiType 0.3 -> I made this module specially for XML::Smart,
                         but can be used in others too ;-P.                     

XML::Parser (OPTIONAL)

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# AUTHOR #
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Graciliano M. P. <gm@virtuasites.com.br>

I will appreciate any type of feedback (include your opinions and/or suggestions). ;-P

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# COPYRIGHT #
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.



