XML::Dumper

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NAME
       XML::Dumper - Perl module for dumping Perl objects from/to XML

SYNOPSIS
        # Convert Perl code to XML
        use XML::Dumper;
        my $dump = new XML::Dumper;
        $data = [
                 {
                   first => 'Jonathan',
                   last => 'Eisenzopf',
                   email => 'eisen@pobox.com'
                 },
                 {
                   first => 'Larry',
                   last => 'Wall',
                   email => 'larry@wall.org'
                 }
                ];
        $xml =  $dump->pl2xml($perl);

        # Convert XML to Perl code
        use XML::Dumper;
        my $dump = new XML::Dumper;

        # some XML
        my $xml = <<XML;
       <perldata>
        <scalar>foo</scalar>
       </perldata>
       XML

        # load Perl data structure from dumped XML
        $data = $dump->xml2pl($Tree);

DESCRIPTION
       XML::Dumper dumps Perl data to a structured XML format.  XML::Dumper
       can also read XML data that was previously dumped by the module and
       convert it back to Perl.

       This is done via the following 2 methods: XML::Dumper::pl2xml
       XML::Dumper::xml2pl

AUTHOR
       Jonathan Eisenzopf <eisen@pobox.com>

CREDITS
       Chris Thorman <ct@ignitiondesign.com> L.M.Orchard <deus_x@pobox.com>
       DeWitt Clinton <dewitt@eziba.com>

SEE ALSO
       perl(1), XML::Parser(3).



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