[perl-xml-cvs] CVS: perl-xml-faq perl-xml-faq.xml,1.3,1.4

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Modified Files:
	perl-xml-faq.xml 
Log Message:
- added CVS revision keywords
- added id attributes to qandadivs
- added XML::Simple FAQ link
- added writeup on Win32::OLE + MSXML
- minor formatting tweaks

Index: perl-xml-faq.xml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/perl-xml/perl-xml-faq/perl-xml-faq.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.3
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -d -r1.3 -r1.4

--- perl-xml-faq.xml	4 Apr 2002 21:35:22 -0000	1.3
+++ perl-xml-faq.xml	17 Apr 2002 20:45:49 -0000	1.4
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@
     <year>2002</year>
     <holder>Grant McLean</holder>
   </copyright>
+
+  <revhistory>
+    <revision>
+      <revnumber>$Revision$</revnumber>
+      <date>$Date$</date>
+    </revision>
+  </revhistory>
+
   <legalnotice>
 
   <para>This work is distributed under the terms of Perl's Artistic License.
@@ -28,7 +36,7 @@
 
 <qandaset defaultlabel="number">
 
-<qandadiv><title>Tutorial and Reference Sources</title>
+<qandadiv id="docs"><title>Tutorial and Reference Sources</title>
   <qandaentry id="tutorials">
     <question>
       <para>Where can I get a gentle introduction to XML and Perl?</para>
@@ -143,7 +151,7 @@
   </qandaentry>
 </qandadiv>
  
-<qandadiv><title>Selecting a Parser Module</title>
+<qandadiv id="parser_selection"><title>Selecting a Parser Module</title>
 
   <qandaentry id="dont_parse">
     <question>
@@ -338,7 +346,7 @@
   
 </qandadiv>
 
-<qandadiv><title>CPAN Modules</title>
+<qandadiv id="cpan_modules"><title>CPAN Modules</title>
 
   <para>This section attempts to summarise the most commonly used XML modules
   available on CPAN.  Many of the modules require that you have certain
@@ -408,7 +416,10 @@
       used for more general purpose XML work too.  The 'simple tree' data
       structure is nothing more than standard Perl hashrefs and arrays - there
       is no API for finding or transforming nodes.  This module is also not
-      suitable for working with 'mixed content'.</para>
+      suitable for working with 'mixed content'.
+      <classname>XML::Simple</classname> has it's own <ulink
+      url="http://web.co.nz/~grantm/cpan/xmlsimple/faq.html">frequently asked
+      questions</ulink> document.</para>
 
       <para>Although <classname>XML::Simple</classname> uses a tree-style, the
       module also supports building the tree from SAX events or using a simple
@@ -482,6 +493,48 @@
     </answer>
   </qandaentry>
 
+  <qandaentry id="msxml">
+    <question>
+      <para><classname>Win32::OLE</classname> and MSXML.DLL</para>
+    </question>
+    <answer>
+
+      <para>If you're using a Windows platform and you're not worried about
+      portability, Microsoft's MSXML provides a DOM implementation with
+      optional validation and support for both XPath and XSLT.  MSXML is a
+      COM component and as such can be accessed from Perl using
+      <classname>Win32::OLE</classname>.  Unfortunately this means you can't
+      get at the documentation with the usual <command>perldoc</command>
+      command,  so here's a code snippet to get you started:</para>
+
+      <programlisting><![CDATA[
+use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
+
+my $xml_file  = 'your file name here';
+my $node_name = 'element name or XPath expression';
+
+my $dom = Win32::OLE->new('MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0') or die "new() failed";
+
+$dom->{async} = "False";
+$dom->{validateOnParse} = "False";
+$dom->Load($xml_file) or die "Parse failed";
+
+my $node_list = $dom->selectNodes($node_name);
+foreach my $node (in $node_list) {
+  print $node->{Text}, "\n";
+}
+	]]></programlisting>
+
+      <para>Shawn Ribordy has written <ulink
+      url="http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/04/17/msxml.html">an article about
+      using MSXML from Perl</ulink> at <ulink
+      url="http://www.perl.com">www.perl.com</ulink>.  You can find reference
+      documentation for the MSXML API on <ulink
+      url="msdn.microsoft.com">MSDN</ulink>.</para>
+
+    </answer>
+  </qandaentry>
+
   <qandaentry id="xml_sax">
     <question>
       <para><classname>XML::SAX</classname></para>
@@ -698,7 +751,7 @@
 
 </qandadiv>
 
-<qandadiv><title>Encodings</title>
+<qandadiv id="encodings"><title>Encodings</title>
 
   <qandaentry id="encodings_why">
     <question>
@@ -1119,7 +1172,7 @@
 
     </answer>
 
-    <answer id="sax_encodeto">
+    <answer id="sax_writer">
 
       <formalpara>
         <title>XML::SAX::Writer</title>
@@ -1231,7 +1284,7 @@
 
 </qandadiv>
 
-<qandadiv><title>Validation</title>
+<qandadiv id="validation"><title>Validation</title>
 
       <para>The XML Recommendation says that an XML document is 'valid' if it
       has an associated document type declaration and if the document complies
@@ -1284,7 +1337,7 @@
 <!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>
 	]]></programlisting>
 
-      <para>Here's an XML document that refer's to the DTD:</para>
+      <para>Here's an XML document that refers to the DTD:</para>
 
       <programlisting><![CDATA[
 <?xml version="1.0" ?>
@@ -1377,7 +1430,7 @@
 
 </qandadiv>
 
-<qandadiv><title>Common Coding Problems</title>
+<qandadiv id="coding_problems"><title>Common Coding Problems</title>
 
   <qandaentry id="error_handling">
     <question>
@@ -1510,7 +1563,7 @@
   
 </qandadiv>
 
-<qandadiv><title>Common XML Problems</title>
+<qandadiv id="xml_problems"><title>Common XML Problems</title>
 
   <para>The error messages and questions listed in this section are not really
   Perl-specific problems, but they are commonly encountered by people new to
@@ -1560,7 +1613,7 @@
     </answer>
   </qandaentry>
 
-  <qandaentry id="no_quotes">
+  <qandaentry id="not_well_formed">
     <question>
       <para>'not well-formed (invalid token)'</para>
     </question>
@@ -1571,7 +1624,7 @@
 
     </answer>
 
-    <answer>
+    <answer id="no_quotes">
 
       <formalpara>
         <title>Unquoted attributes</title>
@@ -1593,7 +1646,7 @@
 
     </answer>
 
-    <answer>
+    <answer id="bad_encoding_decl">
 
       <formalpara>
         <title>Bad encoding declaration</title>
@@ -1643,16 +1696,15 @@
 
       <programlisting><![CDATA[
 <!DOCTYPE doc [
-        <!ENTITY eacute "&#233;" >
-        <!ENTITY euro    "&#8364;" >
+    <!ENTITY eacute "&#233;" >
+    <!ENTITY euro   "&#8364;" >
 ]>
-
 <doc>Combien avez-vous pay&eacute;? 125 &euro;</doc>
 	]]></programlisting>
 
       <para>You can find the definitions for <ulink
       url="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/dtd_module_defs.html#a_module_XHTML_Latin_1_Character_Entities"
-      >HTML Latin 1 characters entities</ulink> on the W3c Site.</para>
+      >HTML Latin 1 characters entities</ulink> on the W3C Site.</para>
       
       <para>You can include all these character entities into your DTD, so that
       you won't have to worry about it anymore:</para>
@@ -1724,7 +1776,7 @@
 
 </qandadiv>
 
-<qandadiv><title>Miscellaneous</title>
+<qandadiv id="misc"><title>Miscellaneous</title>
 
   <qandaentry id="mailing_list">
     <question>
@@ -1783,7 +1835,7 @@
 
 </qandaset>
 
-<section><title>Corrections, Contributions and Acknowledgements</title>
+<section id="corrections_etc"><title>Corrections, Contributions and Acknowledgements</title>
 
       <para>This document is a 'work in progress'.  A number of questions are
       still being worked on and will be added when they are complete.</para>



