NAME
    XML::Generator::vCard - generate SAX2 events for vCard 3.0

SYNOPSIS
     use XML::SAX::Writer;
     use XML::Generator::vCard;

     my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new();
     my $driver = XML::Generator::vCard->new(Handler=>$writer);

     $driver->parse_files("test.vcf");

DESCRIPTION
    Generate SAX2 events for vCard 3.0.

    This package supersedes *XML::SAXDriver::vCard*.

DOCUMENT FORMAT
    SAX2 events map to the *vCard 3.0 XML DTD* draft:

     http://xml.coverpages.org/draft-dawson-vcard-xml-dtd-00.txt

    The draft itself has since expired but it still seems like a perfectly
    good place to start from.

PACKAGE METHODS
  __PACKAGE__->new(%args)
    This method inherits from *XML::SAX::Base*.

    Returns a *XML::Generator::vCard* object.

OBJECT METHODS
  $pkg->parse_files(@files)
    Generate SAX2 events for one, or more, vCard files.

    Returns true or false.

PRIVATE METHODS
    Private methods are documented below in case you need to subclass this
    package to tweak its output.

  $obj->_render_doc(\@vcards)
  $obj->_render_card(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_fn(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_n(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_nickname(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_photo(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_bday(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_adrs(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_labels(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_tels(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_emails(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_instantmessaging(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_mailer(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_tz(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_geo(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_org(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_title(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_role(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_logo(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_categories(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_note(Text::vCard)
  $self->_render_sound(Text::vCard)
  $self->_render_url(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_key(Text::vCard)
  $obj->_render_custom(Text::vCard)
    By default this method does nothing. It is here to be subclassed.

  $obj->_im_services()
    Returns a hash ref mapping an instant messaging service type to an XML
    element. Default is :

     {"aim"    => "foaf:aimChatID",
      "yahoo"  => "foaf:yahooChatID",
      "msn"    => "foaf:msnChatID",
      "jabber" => "foaf:JabberID",
      "icq"    => "foaf:icqChatId"}

    This is called by the *_render_instantmessaging* method.

NAMESPACES
    This package generates SAX events using the following XML namespaces :

    * vCard
         x-urn:cpan:ascope:xml-generator-vcard#

    * foaf:
         http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/

HOW TO
  Filter cards by category
     package MyGenerator;
     use base qw (XML::Generator::vCard);

     sub _render_card {
         my $self = shift;
         my $card = shift;

         my $cats = $vcard->get({"node_type" => 'categories'}) ||
                    $vcard->get({"node_type" => 'category'});

         if (! $cats) {
             return 1;
         }
     
         if (! grep { $_->value() eq "foo" } split(",",$cats->[0])) {
             return 1;
         }

         return $self->SUPER::_render_card($vcard);
     }

     package main;

     my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new();
     my $parser = MyGenerator->new(Handler=>$writer);

     $parser->parse_files(@ARGV);

  Generate SAX events for a custom 'X-*' field
     package MyGenerator;
     use base qw (XML::Generator::vCard);

     sub _render_custom {
       my $self  = shift;
       my $vcard = shift;

       my $custom = $vcard->get({"node_type" => "x-foobar"});
        
       if (! $addresses) {
          next;
       }

       foreach my $foo (@$custom) {
        
          my $types = join(";",$foo->types());

          $self->_pcdata({Name       => "foo:bar",
                          Value      => $foo->value(),
                          Attributes => {"{}type"=> {Name  => "type",
                                                     Value => $types}}
                          });
       }

       return 1;
     }
 
     package main;

     my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new();
     my $parser = MyGenerator->new(Handler=>$writer);

     $parser->parse_files(@ARGV);

  Add custom namespaces
     package MyGenerator;
     use base qw (XML::Generator::vCard);

     sub namespaces {
         my $self = shift;
     
         my $ns = $self->SUPER::namespaces();
         $ns->{ "foo" } = "x-urn:foo:bar#";

         return $ns;
     }

     package main;

     my $writer = XML::SAX::Writer->new();
     my $parser = MyGenerator->new(Handler=>$writer);

     $parser->parse_files(@ARGV);

VERSION
    1.3

DATE
    $Date: 2004/12/28 23:31:29 $

AUTHOR
    Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO
    Text::vCard

    XML::Generator::vCard::Base

    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt

    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2425.txt

BUGS
    vCards containg binary PHOTO images may cause Perl to segfault on Mac
    OSX and come flavours of Linux (but not FreeBSD.) The source of this
    problem has been traced, I think, to a regular expression issue in the
    Perl Text::ParseWords library. A bug report has been filed.

    Please report all other bugs via http://rt.cpan.org

LICENSE
    Copyright (c) 2004, Aaron Straup Cope. All Rights Reserved.

    This is free software, you may use it and distribute it under the same
    terms as Perl itself.