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NAME

SGML::SData - an SGML, XML, or HTML document SData replacement

SYNOPSIS

  $sdata = SGML::SData->new ($replacement[, $entity_name]);

  $name = $sdata->name;
  $data = $sdata->data;

  $sdata->as_string([$context, ...]);

  $sdata->iter;

  $sdata->accept($visitor, ...);
  $sdata->accept_gi($visitor, ...);
  $sdata->children_accept($visitor, ...);
  $sdata->children_accept_gi($visitor, ...);

DESCRIPTION

An SGML::SData contains the entity name and replacement value of a character entity reference.

$sdata->name returns the entity name of the SData object.

$sdata->data returns the data of the SData object.

The Perl module Text::EntityMap can be used to map commonly used character entity sets to common output formats.

$sdata->as_string([$context, ...]) returns data surrounded by brackets (`[ ... ]') unless $context->{sdata_mapper} is defined, in which case it returns the result of calling the sdata_mapper subroutine with data and the remaining arguments. The actual implementation is:

    &{$context->{sdata_mapper}} ($self->data, @_);

$sdata->iter returns an iterator for the sdata object, see Class::Visitor for details.

$sdata->accept($visitor[, ...]) issues a call back to $visitor->visit_SGML_SData($sdata[, ...]). See examples visitor.pl and simple-dump.pl for more information.

$sdata->accept_gi($visitor[, ...]) is implemented as a synonym for accept.

children_accept and children_accept_gi do nothing.

AUTHOR

Ken MacLeod, ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us

SEE ALSO

perl(1), SGML::Grove(3), Text::EntityMap(3), SGML::Element(3), SGML::PI(3), Class::Visitor(3).