NAME XML::LibXML::LazyBuilder - easy and lazy way to create XML document for XML::LibXML SYNOPSIS use XML::LibXML::LazyBuilder; { package XML::LibXML::LazyBuilder; $d = DOM (E A => {at1 => "val1", at2 => "val2"}, ((E B => {}, ((E "C"), (E D => {}, "Content of D"))), (E E => {}, ((E F => {}, "Content of F"), (E "G"))))); } DESCRIPTION You can describe XML documents like simple function call instead of using createElement, appendChild, etc... FUNCTIONS E E "tagname", \%attr, @children Creats CODEREF that generates "XML::LibXML::Element" which tag name is given by first argument. Rest arguments are list of text content or child element created by "E" (so you can nest "E"). Since the output of this function is CODEREF, the creation of actual "XML::LibXML::Element" object will be delayed until "DOM" function is called. DOM DOM \&docroot, $var, $enc Generates "XML::LibXML::Document" object actually. First argument is a CODEREF created by "E" function. $var is version number of XML docuemnt, "1.0" by default. $enc is encoding, "utf-8" by default. EXPORT None by default. :all Exports "E" and "DOM". EXAMPLES I recommend to use "package" statement in a small scope so that you can use short function name and avoid to pollute global name space. my $d; { package XML::LibXML::LazyBuilder; $d = DOM (E A => {at1 => "val1", at2 => "val2"}, ((E B => {}, ((E "C"), (E D => {}, "Content of D"))), (E E => {}, ((E F => {}, "Content of F"), (E "G"))))); } Then, "$d->toString" will generate XML like this: Content of DContent of F SEE ALSO XML::LibXML AUTHOR Toru Hisai, COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2008 by Toru Hisai This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.