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+=head1 WARNING
+
+This manual page was copied from the XML::Parser distribution (version 2.27)
+written by Clark Cooper. You can find newer versions at CPAN.
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+XML::Parser::Expat - Lowlevel access to James Clark's expat XML parser
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+ use XML::Parser::Expat;
+
+ $parser = new XML::Parser::Expat;
+ $parser->setHandlers('Start' => \&sh,
+		      'End'   => \&eh,
+                      'Char'  => \&ch);
+ open(FOO, 'info.xml') or die "Couldn't open";
+ $parser->parse(*FOO);
+ close(FOO);
+ # $parser->parse('<foo id="me"> here <em>we</em> go </foo>');
+
+ sub sh
+ {
+   my ($p, $el, %atts) = @_;
+   $p->setHandlers('Char' => \&spec)
+     if ($el eq 'special');
+   ...
+ }
+
+ sub eh
+ {
+   my ($p, $el) = @_;
+   $p->setHandlers('Char' => \&ch)  # Special elements won't contain
+     if ($el eq 'special');         # other special elements
+   ...
+ } 
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This module provides an interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat. As in
+expat, a single instance of the parser can only parse one document. Calls
+to parsestring after the first for a given instance will die.
+
+Expat (and XML::Parser::Expat) are event based. As the parser recognizes
+parts of the document (say the start or end of an XML element), then any
+handlers registered for that type of an event are called with suitable
+parameters.
+
+=head1 METHODS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item new
+
+This is a class method, the constructor for XML::Parser::Expat. Options are
+passed as keyword value pairs. The recognized options are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item * ProtocolEncoding
+
+The protocol encoding name. The default is none. The expat built-in
+encodings are: C<UTF-8>, C<ISO-8859-1>, C<UTF-16>, and C<US-ASCII>.
+Other encodings may be used if they have encoding maps in one of the
+directories in the @Encoding_Path list. Setting the protocol encoding
+overrides any encoding in the XML declaration.
+
+=item * Namespaces
+
+When this option is given with a true value, then the parser does namespace
+processing. By default, namespace processing is turned off. When it is
+turned on, the parser consumes I<xmlns> attributes and strips off prefixes
+from element and attributes names where those prefixes have a defined
+namespace. A name's namespace can be found using the L<"namespace"> method
+and two names can be checked for absolute equality with the L<"eq_name">
+method.
+
+=item * NoExpand
+
+Normally, the parser will try to expand references to entities defined in
+the internal subset. If this option is set to a true value, and a default
+handler is also set, then the default handler will be called when an
+entity reference is seen in text. This has no effect if a default handler
+has not been registered, and it has no effect on the expansion of entity
+references inside attribute values.
+
+=item * Stream_Delimiter
+
+This option takes a string value. When this string is found alone on a line
+while parsing from a stream, then the parse is ended as if it saw an end of
+file. The intended use is with a stream of xml documents in a MIME multipart
+format. The string should not contain a trailing newline.
+
+=item * ErrorContext
+
+When this option is defined, errors are reported in context. The value
+of ErrorContext should be the number of lines to show on either side of
+the line in which the error occurred.
+
+=item * ParseParamEnt
+
+Unless standalone is set to "yes" in the XML declaration, setting this to
+a true value allows the external DTD to be read, and parameter entities
+to be parsed and expanded.
+
+=item * Base
+
+The base to use for relative pathnames or URLs. This can also be done by
+using the base method.
+
+=back
+
+=item setHandlers(TYPE, HANDLER [, TYPE, HANDLER [...]])
+
+This method registers handlers for the various events. If no handlers are
+registered, then a call to parsestring or parsefile will only determine if
+the corresponding XML document is well formed (by returning without error.)
+This may be called from within a handler, after the parse has started.
+
+Setting a handler to something that evaluates to false unsets that
+handler.
+
+This method returns a list of type, handler pairs corresponding to the
+input. The handlers returned are the ones that were in effect before the
+call to setHandlers.
+
+The recognized events and the parameters passed to the corresponding
+handlers are:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item * Start		(Parser, Element [, Attr, Val [,...]])
+
+This event is generated when an XML start tag is recognized. Parser is
+an XML::Parser::Expat instance. Element is the name of the XML element that
+is opened with the start tag. The Attr & Val pairs are generated for each
+attribute in the start tag.
+
+=item * End		(Parser, Element)
+
+This event is generated when an XML end tag is recognized. Note that
+an XML empty tag (<foo/>) generates both a start and an end event.
+
+There is always a lower level start and end handler installed that wrap
+the corresponding callbacks. This is to handle the context mechanism.
+A consequence of this is that the default handler (see below) will not
+see a start tag or end tag unless the default_current method is called.
+
+=item * Char		(Parser, String)
+
+This event is generated when non-markup is recognized. The non-markup
+sequence of characters is in String. A single non-markup sequence of
+characters may generate multiple calls to this handler. Whatever the
+encoding of the string in the original document, this is given to the
+handler in UTF-8.
+
+=item * Proc		(Parser, Target, Data)
+
+This event is generated when a processing instruction is recognized.
+
+=item * Comment		(Parser, String)
+
+This event is generated when a comment is recognized.
+
+=item * CdataStart	(Parser)
+
+This is called at the start of a CDATA section.
+
+=item * CdataEnd	(Parser)
+
+This is called at the end of a CDATA section.
+
+=item * Default		(Parser, String)
+
+This is called for any characters that don't have a registered handler.
+This includes both characters that are part of markup for which no
+events are generated (markup declarations) and characters that
+could generate events, but for which no handler has been registered.
+
+Whatever the encoding in the original document, the string is returned to
+the handler in UTF-8.
+
+=item * Unparsed		(Parser, Entity, Base, Sysid, Pubid, Notation)
+
+This is called for a declaration of an unparsed entity. Entity is the name
+of the entity. Base is the base to be used for resolving a relative URI.
+Sysid is the system id. Pubid is the public id. Notation is the notation
+name. Base and Pubid may be undefined.
+
+=item * Notation		(Parser, Notation, Base, Sysid, Pubid)
+
+This is called for a declaration of notation. Notation is the notation name.
+Base is the base to be used for resolving a relative URI. Sysid is the system
+id. Pubid is the public id. Base, Sysid, and Pubid may all be undefined.
+
+=item * ExternEnt		(Parser, Base, Sysid, Pubid)
+
+This is called when an external entity is referenced. Base is the base to be
+used for resolving a relative URI. Sysid is the system id. Pubid is the public
+id. Base, and Pubid may be undefined.
+
+This handler should either return a string, which represents the contents of
+the external entity, or return an open filehandle that can be read to obtain
+the contents of the external entity, or return undef, which indicates the
+external entity couldn't be found and will generate a parse error.
+
+If an open filehandle is returned, it must be returned as either a glob
+(*FOO) or as a reference to a glob (e.g. an instance of IO::Handle). The
+parser will close the filehandle after using it.
+
+=item * Entity			(Parser, Name, Val, Sysid, Pubid, Ndata)
+
+This is called when an entity is declared. For internal entities, the Val
+parameter will contain the value and the remaining three parameters will
+be undefined. For external entities, the Val parameter
+will be undefined, the Sysid parameter will have the system id, the Pubid
+parameter will have the public id if it was provided (it will be undefined
+otherwise), the Ndata parameter will contain the notation for unparsed
+entities. If this is a parameter entity declaration, then a '%' will be
+prefixed to the name.
+
+Note that this handler and the Unparsed handler above overlap. If both are
+set, then this handler will not be called for unparsed entities.
+
+=item * Element			(Parser, Name, Model)
+
+The element handler is called when an element declaration is found. Name is
+the element name, and Model is the content model as a string.
+
+=item * Attlist			(Parser, Elname, Attname, Type, Default, Fixed)
+
+This handler is called for each attribute in an ATTLIST declaration.
+So an ATTLIST declaration that has multiple attributes
+will generate multiple calls to this handler. The Elname parameter is the
+name of the element with which the attribute is being associated. The Attname
+parameter is the name of the attribute. Type is the attribute type, given as
+a string. Default is the default value, which will either be "#REQUIRED",
+"#IMPLIED" or a quoted string (i.e. the returned string will begin and end
+with a quote character). If Fixed is true, then this is a fixed attribute.
+
+=item * Doctype			(Parser, Name, Sysid, Pubid, Internal)
+
+This handler is called for DOCTYPE declarations. Name is the document type
+name. Sysid is the system id of the document type, if it was provided,
+otherwise it's undefined. Pubid is the public id of the document type,
+which will be undefined if no public id was given. Internal is the internal
+subset, given as a string. If there was no internal subset, it will be
+undefined. Internal will contain all whitespace, comments, processing
+instructions, and declarations seen in the internal subset. The declarations
+will be there whether or not they have been processed by another handler
+(except for unparsed entities processed by the Unparsed handler). However,
+comments and processing instructions will not appear if they've been processed
+by their respective handlers.
+
+=item * XMLDecl			(Parser, Version, Encoding, Standalone)
+
+This handler is called for xml declarations. Version is a string containg
+the version. Encoding is either undefined or contains an encoding string.
+Standalone will be either true, false, or undefined if the standalone attribute
+is yes, no, or not made respectively.
+
+=back
+
+=item namespace(name)
+
+Return the URI of the namespace that the name belongs to. If the name doesn't
+belong to any namespace, an undef is returned. This is only valid on names
+received through the Start or End handlers from a single document, or through
+a call to the generate_ns_name method. In other words, don't use names
+generated from one instance of XML::Parser::Expat with other instances.
+
+=item eq_name(name1, name2)
+
+Return true if name1 and name2 are identical (i.e. same name and from
+the same namespace.) This is only meaningful if both names were obtained
+through the Start or End handlers from a single document, or through
+a call to the generate_ns_name method.
+
+=item generate_ns_name(name, namespace)
+
+Return a name, associated with a given namespace, good for using with the
+above 2 methods. The namespace argument should be the namespace URI, not
+a prefix.
+
+=item new_ns_prefixes
+
+When called from a start tag handler, returns namespace prefixes declared
+with this start tag. If called elsewere (or if there were no namespace
+prefixes declared), it returns an empty list. Setting of the default
+namespace is indicated with '#default' as a prefix.
+
+=item expand_ns_prefix(prefix)
+
+Return the uri to which the given prefix is currently bound. Returns
+undef if the prefix isn't currently bound. Use '#default' to find the
+current binding of the default namespace (if any).
+
+=item current_ns_prefixes
+
+Return a list of currently bound namespace prefixes. The order of the
+the prefixes in the list has no meaning. If the default namespace is
+currently bound, '#default' appears in the list.
+
+=item recognized_string
+
+Returns the string from the document that was recognized in order to call
+the current handler. For instance, when called from a start handler, it
+will give us the the start-tag string. The string is encoded in UTF-8.
+
+=item original_string
+
+Returns the verbatim string from the document that was recognized in
+order to call the current handler. The string is in the original document
+encoding.
+
+=item default_current
+
+When called from a handler, causes the sequence of characters that generated
+the corresponding event to be sent to the default handler (if one is
+registered). Use of this method is deprecated in favor the recognized_string
+method, which you can use without installing a default handler.
+
+=item xpcroak(message)
+
+Concatenate onto the given message the current line number within the
+XML document plus the message implied by ErrorContext. Then croak with
+the formed message.
+
+=item xpcarp(message)
+
+Concatenate onto the given message the current line number within the
+XML document plus the message implied by ErrorContext. Then carp with
+the formed message.
+
+=item current_line
+
+Returns the line number of the current position of the parse.
+
+=item current_column
+
+Returns the column number of the current position of the parse.
+
+=item current_byte
+
+Returns the current position of the parse.
+
+=item base([NEWBASE]);
+
+Returns the current value of the base for resolving relative URIs. If
+NEWBASE is supplied, changes the base to that value.
+
+=item context
+
+Returns a list of element names that represent open elements, with the
+last one being the innermost. Inside start and end tag handlers, this
+will be the tag of the parent element.
+
+=item current_element
+
+Returns the name of the innermost currently opened element. Inside
+start or end handlers, returns the parent of the element associated
+with those tags.
+
+=item in_element(NAME)
+
+Returns true if NAME is equal to the name of the innermost currently opened
+element. If namespace processing is being used and you want to check
+against a name that may be in a namespace, then use the generate_ns_name
+method to create the NAME argument.
+
+=item within_element(NAME)
+
+Returns the number of times the given name appears in the context list.
+If namespace processing is being used and you want to check
+against a name that may be in a namespace, then use the generate_ns_name
+method to create the NAME argument.
+
+=item depth
+
+Returns the size of the context list.
+
+=item element_index
+
+Returns an integer that is the depth-first visit order of the current
+element. This will be zero outside of the root element. For example,
+this will return 1 when called from the start handler for the root element
+start tag.
+
+=item skip_until(INDEX)
+
+INDEX is an integer that represents an element index. When this method
+is called, all handlers are suspended until the start tag for an element
+that has an index number equal to INDEX is seen. If a start handler has
+been set, then this is the first tag that the start handler will see
+after skip_until has been called.
+
+
+=item position_in_context(LINES)
+
+Returns a string that shows the current parse position. LINES should be
+an integer >= 0 that represents the number of lines on either side of the
+current parse line to place into the returned string.
+
+=item xml_escape(TEXT [, CHAR [, CHAR ...]])
+
+Returns TEXT with markup characters turned into character entities. Any
+additional characters provided as arguments are also turned into character
+references where found in TEXT.
+
+=item parse (SOURCE)
+
+The SOURCE parameter should either be a string containing the whole XML
+document, or it should be an open IO::Handle. Only a single document
+may be parsed for a given instance of XML::Parser::Expat, so this will croak
+if it's been called previously for this instance.
+
+=item parsestring(XML_DOC_STRING)
+
+Parses the given string as an XML document. Only a single document may be
+parsed for a given instance of XML::Parser::Expat, so this will die if either
+parsestring or parsefile has been called for this instance previously.
+
+This method is deprecated in favor of the parse method.
+
+=item parsefile(FILENAME)
+
+Parses the XML document in the given file. Will die if parsestring or
+parsefile has been called previously for this instance.
+
+=item is_defaulted(ATTNAME)
+
+NO LONGER WORKS. To find out if an attribute is defaulted please use
+the specified_attr method.
+
+=item specified_attr
+
+When the start handler receives lists of attributes and values, the
+non-defaulted (i.e. explicitly specified) attributes occur in the list
+first. This method returns the number of specified items in the list.
+So if this number is equal to the length of the list, there were no
+defaulted values. Otherwise the number points to the index of the
+first defaulted attribute name.
+
+=item finish
+
+Unsets all handlers (including internal ones that set context), but expat
+continues parsing to the end of the document or until it finds an error.
+It should finish up a lot faster than with the handlers set.
+
+=item release
+
+There are data structures used by XML::Parser::Expat that have circular
+references. This means that these structures will never be garbage
+collected unless these references are explicitly broken. Calling this
+method breaks those references (and makes the instance unusable.)
+
+Normally, higher level calls handle this for you, but if you are using
+XML::Parser::Expat directly, then it's your responsibility to call it.
+
+=back
+
+=head2 XML::Parser::ExpatNB Methods
+
+The class XML::Parser::ExpatNB is a subclass of XML::Parser::Expat used
+for non-blocking access to the expat library. It does not support the parse,
+parsestring, or parsefile methods, but it does have these additional methods:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item parse_more(DATA)
+
+Feed expat more text to munch on.
+
+=item parse_done
+
+Tell expat that it's gotten the whole document.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 FUNCTIONS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item XML::Parser::Expat::load_encoding(ENCODING)
+
+Load an external encoding. ENCODING is either the name of an encoding or
+the name of a file. The basename is converted to lowercase and a '.enc'
+extension is appended unless there's one already there. Then, unless
+it's an absolute pathname (i.e. begins with '/'), the first file by that
+name discovered in the @Encoding_Path path list is used.
+
+The encoding in the file is loaded and kept in the %Encoding_Table
+table. Earlier encodings of the same name are replaced.
+
+This function is automaticly called by expat when it encounters an encoding
+it doesn't know about. Expat shouldn't call this twice for the same
+encoding name. The only reason users should use this function is to
+explicitly load an encoding not contained in the @Encoding_Path list.
+
+=back
+
+=head1 AUTHORS
+
+Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>> wrote version 1.0.
+
+Clark Cooper <F<coopercc@netheaven.com>> picked up support, changed the API
+for this version (2.x), provided documentation, and added some standard
+package features.
+
+=cut