NAME

Meta::Xml::Parsers::Movie - object to import movie XML data into a database.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: Movie.pm
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.14

SYNOPSIS

        package foo;
        use Meta::Xml::Parsers::Movie qw();
        my($parser)=Meta::Xml::Parsers::Movie->new();
        $parser->parsefile($file);

DESCRIPTION

This object parses a movie XML file and plugs the data into a database. This is much better than using DOM type techniques since it doesnt mean that the entire data will be at RAM in any single time (more streamlined).

FUNCTIONS

        new($)
        handle_start($$)
        handle_end($$)
        handle_endchar($$$)
        TEST($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

new($)

This gives you a new object for a parser.

set_dbi($$)

This method will set the dbi handle that will be used to insert the data into the database.

handle_start($$)

This will handle start tags.

handle_end($$)

This will handle end tags. This currently does nothing.

handle_endchar($$$)

This will handle actual text. This currently, according to context, sets attributes for the various objects.

TEST($)

Test suite for this module.

SUPER CLASSES

Meta::Xml::Parsers::Collector(3)

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV some chess work
        0.01 MV more movies
        0.02 MV fix database problems
        0.03 MV books XML into database
        0.04 MV md5 project
        0.05 MV database
        0.06 MV perl module versions in files
        0.07 MV movies and small fixes
        0.08 MV thumbnail user interface
        0.09 MV more thumbnail issues
        0.10 MV website construction
        0.11 MV web site automation
        0.12 MV SEE ALSO section fix
        0.13 MV teachers project
        0.14 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), Meta::Ds::Array(3), Meta::Utils::Time(3), Meta::Xml::Parsers::Collector(3), strict(3)

TODO

-what about simultaneously inserting data to two databases ?

-watch the hack in movie.titles.title.name (the .=) - this is because this handler is called more than once for a single string - how can I bypass this shit ?. In addition - why does the parser change charcter entities (&) in the source XML to actual character (&) when giving them to me ? Is my string Unicode ?

cpanm Meta::Init

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Meta::Init