README for XML::Dumper ====================== XML::Dumper dumps Perl data to a structured XML format. XML::Dumper can also read XML data that was previously dumped by the module and convert it back to Perl. This might be useful for dumping Perl objects to files using an XML format that can be reloaded or accessed by other programs. Maybe even by other languages. For more information, read the perldoc for this module. I (Mike Wong) am the current maintainer; I welcome bug reports, comments and suggestions to make this a better module for helping you to do what you need. Contact me via e-mail at . Better yet, if you're in Sonoma County of California, USA, join the Sonoma Perl Mongers and we can talk there. For more information on Sonoma Perl Mongers, see http://sonoma.pm.org INSTALLATION To install this module, type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires version 2.16 or greater of the XML::Parser module. The latest version is available at any CPAN archive. This module also optionally depends on Compress::Zlib. If you install Compress::Zlib, you may read and write zlib-compressed XML files. Zlib is the compression library that gzip and gunzip use for their compression/decompression scheme. The XML files that are zlib- compressed are compatible with gzip and gunzip. XML is an extremely regular file format and benefits greatly from compression; installing Compress::Zlib is highly recommended. CURRENT MAINTAINER Mike Wong COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright © 2002 Mike Wong. All rights reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.