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XML-WBXML-0.03
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/ XML::WBXML

NAME

XML::WBXML - Convert between XML and WBXML using libwbxml2

SYNOPSIS

  use XML::WBXML;

  $wbxml = XML::WBXML::xml_to_wbxml($xml);
  $xml = XML::WBXML::wbxml_to_xml($wbxml);

DESCRIPTION

This module is a wrapper around Aymerick Jehanne's libwbxml (or perhaps libwbxml2, I am not sure what the distinction is) library for handling Wireless Binary XML. You must install libwbxml2 prior to installing this module. The library can be found at http://libwbxml.aymerick.com/ (libwbxml2 itself requires the expat library to be installed.)

The module defines two functions: xml_to_wbxml and wbxml_to_xml.

EXPORTS

None by default.

EXPORTABLE FUNCTIONS

xml_to_wbxml $xml

Given a string containing an XML document, converts it to WBXML (version 1.2). Returns undef on errors.

(As far as I can tell, the only distinction between version 1.2 and version 1.3 of WBXML is the first byte -- 0x03 in 1.3 and 0x02 in 1.2.)

wbxml_to_xml $wbxml

Given a string containing a WBXML document, converts it to XML (without extra whitespace). Returns undef on errors.

DEPENDENCIES

libwbxml2, a C compiler, and (transitively) expat.

SEE ALSO

Francois Perrad wrote two pure-Perl modules for dealing with WBXML: WAP::SAXDriver::wbxml for parsing WBXML using a SAX approach and WAP::wbxml for writing it. While they have their advantages, I did not find that their output was as nice as libwbxml2's, and they don't provide a simple conversion interface.

I also wrote XML::WBXML::SyncML which wrapped Perrad's modules to provide a simple conversion interface (which was limited only to SyncML documents); however, I would highly recommend XML::WBXML over it, since it is both more correct and more general. (In fact, I withdrew XML::WBXML::SyncML from the CPAN within 24 hours of uploading it (since I may want to use the name for a subclass of this module someday) -- if you really think you'll find it useful you'll need to download it from the BACKPAN.)

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-xml-wbxml@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

David Glasser <glasser@bestpractical.com>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005, Best Practical Solutions, LLC. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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