Getopt-XML version 0.51 ============================ This is simply another way to pass in user defined arguments to an application using Getop::Long. The module provides a way to pass in user arguments from an XML file into Getopt::Long. In this way, the user can provide input to an application via an XML file. And this can be useful if the application is ran at a regular interval. Or it may be useful if the input to the application can change between multiple executions, but the provided content is consistant over time based on the context of the execution. This input method may be desired for an application which has default values for options the author wishes to exist, but the author wants those default values to be changed by the user without having to edit the application code. Or perhaps the application will reside in a multi-user environment, and this module would be used to store the input options as part of the user preferences. And finally, perhaps the options to be passed into the application resides somewhere else in XML or another storage format that can be transformed into XML as input to an application. EXAMPLE use XML::TreePP; use Getopt::Long; use Getopt::XML qw(GetXMLOptions); use Data::Dump qw(dump); # # Set the XML Data my $xmldata=<<"EOF_XMLDATA"; red red delicious Macomb Peoria Galesburg EOF_XMLDATA # # Parse the XML data using XML::TreePP module my $tpp = XML::TreePP->new(); my $tree = $tpp->parse( $xmldata ); # # Read the XML data in as arguments to Getopt::Long my %options; GetXMLOptions ( xmldoc => $tree, xmlpath => 'apple', Getopt_Long => [ \%options, 'isAvailable', 'color=s', 'type=s', 'cityGrown=s@' ] ); dump(\%options); This is the output: { cityGrown => ["Macomb", "Peoria", "Galesburg"], color => "red", isAvailable => 1, type => "red delicious", } INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Getopt::Long >= 2.37 XML::TreePP XML::TreePP::XMLPath Params::Validate COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (c) 2008 Center for the Application of Information Technologies. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.