XML::XPathScript::Template - XML::XPathScript transformation template

XML-XPathScript documentation Contained in the XML-XPathScript distribution.

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NAME

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XML::XPathScript::Template - XML::XPathScript transformation template

SYNOPSIS

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    <%
        $t->set( 'important' => { 'pre' => '<blink>', 
                                  'post' => '</blink>',
                                  'prechild' => '<u>',
                                  'postchild' => '</u>',
                                  } );

        # urgent and annoying share the 'pre' and 'post'
        # of important
        $t->copy( 'important' => [ qw/ urgent annoying / ], 
                    [ qw/ pre post / ],        );

        # redHot is a synonym of important
        $t->alias( 'important' => 'redHot' );

     %>
     <%= apply_templates() %>

DESCRIPTION

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A stylesheet's template defines the transformations and actions that are performed on the tags of a document as they are processed.

The template of a stylesheet can be accessed via variables $t, $template and $XML::XPathScript::trans.

METHODS

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new

    $template = XML::XPathScript::Template->new

Creates and returns a new, empty template.

set

    $template->set( $tag, \%attributes )
    $template->set( \@tags , \%attributes )

Updates the $tag or @tags in the template with the given %attributes.

Thank to the magic of overloading, using the $template as a code reference acts as a shortcut to set.

Example:

    $template->set( 'foo' => { pre => '<a>', post => '</a>' } );
    # or, if you prefer,
    $template->( 'foo' => { pre => '<a>', post => '</a>' } );

copy

    $template->copy( $original_tag, $copy_tag );
    $template->copy( $original_tag, $copy_tag, \@attributes );
    $template->copy( $original_tag, \@copy_tags );
    $template->copy( $original_tag, \@copy_tags, \@attributes );

Copies all attributes (or a subset of them if @attributes is given) of $original_tag to $copy_tag.

Note that subsequent modifications of the original tag will not affect the copies. To bind several tags to the same behavior, see alias.

Example:

    # copy the attributes 'pre' and 'post' of important 
    # to 'urgent' and 'redHot'
    $template->copy( 'important' => [ qw/ urgent redHot / ], 
                        [ qw/ pre post / ] );

import_template

    $template->import_template( $other_template )

Imports another template into the current one.

alias

    $template->alias( $original_tag => $alias_tag )
    $template->alias( $original_tag => \@alias_tags )

Makes the target tags aliases to the original tag. Further modifications that will be done on any of these tags will be reflected on all others.

Example:

    $template->alias( 'foo' => 'bar' );

    # also modifies 'foo'
    $template->set( 'bar' => { pre => '<u>' } );

is_alias

    @aliases = $template->is_alias( $tag )

Returns all tags that are aliases to $tag.

unalias

    $template->unalias( $tag )

Unmerge $tag of its aliases, if it has any. Further modifications to $tag will not affect the erstwhile aliases, and vice versa.

Example:

    $template->alias( 'foo' => [ qw/ bar baz / ] );
    $template->set( 'foo' => { pre => '<a>' } );    # affects foo, bar and baz
    $template->unalias( 'bar' );
    $template->set( 'bar' => { pre => '<c>' } );    # affects only bar
    $template->set( 'baz' => { pre => '<b>' } );    # affects foo and baz

clear

    $template->clear()
    $template->clear( \@tags )

Delete all tags, or those given by @tags, from the template.

Example:

    $template->clear([ 'foo', 'bar' ]);

dump

    $template->dump()
    $template->dump( @tags )

Returns a pretty-printed dump of the templates. If @tags are specified, only return their templates.

Example:

    <%= $template->dump( 'foo' ) %>

    # will yield something like
    #
    # $template = {
    #    foo => {
    #        post => '</bar>',
    #        pre  => '<bar>',
    #    }
    # };

namespace

    my $subtemplate = $template->namespace( $uri );

Returns the sub-template associated to the namespace defined by $uri.

Example:

    $template->set( 'foo' => { 'pre' => 'within default namespace' } );
    my $subtemplate = $template->namespace( 'http://www.www3c.org/blah/' );
    $subtemplate->set( 'foo' => { 'pre' => "within 'blah' namespace" } );

resolve

    $tag = $template->resolve( $namespace, $tagname );
    $tag = $template->resolve( $tagname );

Returns the tag object within $template that matches $namespace and $tagname best. The returned match is the first one met in the following list:

*

$namespace:$tagname

*

$namespace:*

*

$tagname

*

*

*

undef

Example:

    $template->set( foo => { pre => 'a' } );
    $template->set( '*' => { pre => 'b' } );
    $template->namespace( 'http://blah' )->set( foo => { pre => 'c' } );
    $template->namespace( 'http://blah' )->set( '*' => { pre => 'd' } );

    $template->resolve( 'foo' )->get( 'pre' );  # returns 'a'
    $template->resolve( 'baz' )->get( 'pre' );  # returns 'b'
    $template->resolve( 'http://meeh', 'foo' )->get( 'pre' );  # returns 'a'
    $template->resolve( 'http://blah', 'foo' )->get( 'pre' );  # returns 'c'
    $template->resolve( 'http://blah', 'baz' )->get( 'pre' );  # returns 'd'

BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY

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Prior to version 1.0 of XML::XPathScript, the template of a stylesheet was not an object but a simple hash reference. Modifications to the template were done by manipulating the hash directly.

    <%
        # pre-1.0 way of manipulating the template
        $t->{important}{pre}  = '<blink>';
        $t->{important}{post} = '</blink>';

        for my $tag ( qw/ urgent redHot / ) {
            for my $attr ( qw/ pre post / ) {
                $t->{$tag}{$attr} = $t->{important}{$attr};
            }
        }

        $t->{ alert } = $t->{ important };
    %>

Don't tell anyone, but as an XML::XPathScript::Template is a blessed hash reference this way of doing things will still work. However, direct manipulation of the template's hash is deprecated. Instead, it is recommended to use the object's access methods.

    <%
        # correct way to manipulate the template
        $t->set( important => { pre => '<blink>', 
                                post => '</blink>',
                                showtag => 1
                                } );

        $t->copy( important => [ qw/ urgent redHot / ], [ qw/ pre post / ] );

        $t->alias( important => alert );
    %>

BUGS

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Please send bug reports to <bug-xml-xpathscript@rt.cpan.org>, or via the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=XML-XPathScript .

AUTHOR

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Yanick Champoux <yanick@cpan.org>

XML-XPathScript documentation Contained in the XML-XPathScript distribution. 
package XML::XPathScript::Template;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Carp;
use Scalar::Util qw/ reftype /;
use Data::Dumper;
use XML::XPathScript::Template::Tag;
use Clone qw/ clone /;
use Scalar::Util qw/ refaddr /;

use overload '&{}'  => \&_overload_func,
             q{""}  => \&_overload_quote;

our $VERSION = '1.54';

sub new {
   my( $class ) = @_;

   my $self = {};
   bless $self, $class;

   return $self;
}

sub set {       ##no critic
    croak "method set called with more than two arguments" if @_ > 3;

    my( $self, $tag, $attribute_ref ) = @_;

    my $type = reftype $tag;
    my @templates =         # templates to change
            !$type           ? $self->{$tag} 
                                    ||= new XML::XPathScript::Template::Tag
          : $type eq 'ARRAY' ?  map { $self->{$_} 
                                    ||= new XML::XPathScript::Template::Tag 
                                    } @$tag
          : croak "tag cannot be of type $type"
          ;

    $_->set( $attribute_ref ) for @templates;

    return;
}

sub copy { 
    my( $self, $src, $copy, $attributes_ref ) = @_;

    croak "tag $src not found in template"
        unless $self->{$src};

    my %attributes = %{ $self->{$src} };
    %attributes = map { $_ => $attributes{ $_ } }@$attributes_ref 
            if $attributes_ref;
   
   $self->set( $copy, \%attributes );

   return;
}

sub alias {
    my( $self, $src, $copy ) = @_;

    $self->{$_} = $self->{$src} for ref( $copy ) ? @$copy : $copy;

    return;
}


sub dump {                      ##no critic
    my( $self, @tags ) = @_;
    
    my %template = %{$self};
    
    @tags = keys %template unless @tags;
    
    %template = map { $_ => $template{ $_ } } @tags;
    
    return Data::Dumper->Dump( [ \%template ], [ 'template' ] );
}

sub clear {
    my( $self, $tags ) = @_;

    delete $self->{ $_ } for $tags 
                                ? @$tags 
                                : grep { !/^:/ } keys %$self; ##no critic
    return;
}


sub is_alias {
    my( $self, $tag ) = @_;

    my $id = $self->{$tag};

    my @aliases = grep {     $_ ne $tag 
                         and refaddr( $self->{$_} ) eq refaddr( $id ) }
                  keys %{$self};

    return @aliases;
}

sub unalias {
    my( $self, $tag ) = @_;

    my $fresh = new XML::XPathScript::Template::Tag;

    $fresh->set( $self->{$tag} );

    $self->{$tag} = $fresh;

    return;
}

sub namespace {
    my( $self, $namespace ) = @_;

    return $self->{ ":$namespace" } ||= new XML::XPathScript::Template;
}

sub resolve {
    my $template = shift;
    my( $namespace, $tag ) = @_ == 2 ? @_ : ( undef, @_ ); 

    no warnings qw/ uninitialized /;
    $namespace = ':'.$namespace;

    return ( ( $template->{$namespace} &&           # selection order
                (  $template->{$namespace}{$tag}    # foo:bar
                || $template->{$namespace}{'*'} ) ) # foo:*
                || $template->{$tag}                # bar
                || $template->{'*'} );              # *  
                                                    # (and undef if nothing)
}

sub import_template {
    my( $self, $other_template ) = @_;

    carp "incorrect call for import_template(): no argument or is not a template"
        unless $other_template and $other_template =~ /HASH/;

    for my $k ( keys %$other_template ) {
        if ( 0 == index $k, ':' ) {         # it's a namespace
            my $ns = $k;
            $ns =~ s/^://;
            my $subtemplate = $self->namespace( $ns );
            $subtemplate->import( $other_template->{$k} );
        }
        else {                              # it's a regular tag
            $self->set( $k => $other_template->{$k} );
        }
    }

    return;
}

sub _overload_func {
    my $self = shift;
    return sub { $self->set( @_ ) }
}

sub _overload_quote {
    my $self = shift;
    return $self;
    return sub { $self };
}

1;

__END__

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