stag-flatten.pl

Langue: en

Version: 2004-02-02 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

stag-flatten.pl - turns stag data into a flat table

SYNOPSIS

   stag-flatten.pl -c name -c person/name dept MyFile.xml
 
 

DESCRIPTION

reads in a file in a stag format, and 'flattens' it to a tab-delimited table format. given this data:
   (company
    (dept
     (name "special-operations")
     (person
      (name "james-bond"))
     (person
      (name "fred"))))
 
 

the above command will return a two column table

   special-operations      james-bond
   special-operations      fred
 
 

If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the cartesian product will be calculated

USAGE

   stag-flatten.pl [-p PARSER] [-c COLS] [-c COLS] NODE <file>
 
 

ARGUMENTS

-p|parser FORMAT
FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext

xml assumed as default

-c|column COL1,COL2,COL3,..
the name of the columns/elements to write out

this can be specified either with multiple -c arguments, or with a comma-seperated (no spaces) list of column (terminal node) names after a single -c

-n|nest
if set, then the output will be a compress repeating values into the same row; each cell in the table will be enclosed by {}, and will contain a comma-delimited set of values

SEE ALSO

Data::Stag