p5-XML-Rewrite

XML processing and rewriting

Often, XML messages and schemas are created by automatic tools. These tools may provide very nice user interfaces, but tend to produce horrible XML. If you have to read these ugly products, you are in for pain. The purpose of this module (and the script "xmlrewrite" which is part of this distribution) is to be able to rewrite XML messages and Schema's into something maintainable. The main difference between this module and other beautifiers is that the clean-up is based on schema rules. For instance, it is permitted to remove blanks around and inside integers, but not in strings. Beautifiers which do not look into the schema have only limited possibilities for cleanup, or may accidentally change the message content.