LibXML-Writer-raku

Synopsis

use LibXML::Writer::Buffer; # String or buffer output
my LibXML::Writer::Buffer:D $writer .= new;

$writer.startDocument( :enc<UTF-8> , :version<1.0>, :standalone);
$writer.startElement('Test');
$writer.writeAttribute('id', 'abc123');
$writer.writeText('Hello world!');
$writer.endElement();
$writer.endDocument();
say $writer.Str;
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
# <Test id="abc123">Hello world!</Test>

# write an AST fragment

$writer .= new;
$writer.write: "Test" => [:id<abc123>, 'Hello world!'];
say $writer.Str;
# <Test id="abc123">Hello world!</Test>

Description

This module binds to the libxml2 Writer interface. It can be used to construct full XML documents or XML fragments.

It offers:

• an alternative to the W3C DOM for constructing XML documents

• the ability to stream to files, buffers or strings without the need to create an intermediate XML document

The API is documented in LibXML::Writer

Classes

This module has several output classes:

• LibXML::Writer::Buffer - String or buffer output

• LibXML::Writer::Document - Construction of LibXML Documents

• LibXML::Writer::Node - Construction of Document Sub-trees or Fragments

• LibXML::Writer::PushParser - Construction of LibXML documents via LibXML::PushParser

• LibXML::Writer::File - Direct file output