NAME

Convert::EDS::XDD - Convert CANopen EDS to XDD

SYNOPSIS

perl -MConvert::EDS::XDD=eds2xdd -e "eds2xdd 'profile.eds'" > profile.xdd

DESCRIPTION

EDS and XDD are device profile formats based on ini|Config::Tiny and XML|XML::Writer respectively and are specified by the CiA e.V.

This module Takes in an EDS file or a string with its content and returns a XDD string. By default, The ISO15745Profile section is Ethernet POWERLINK specific, but can be adjusted by the user. A self-contained (fatpacked) `epl2xdd` script is available at the Github releases page.

LIMITATIONS

May not handle all details of the EDS. Pull requests and reports (issues on Github) welcome.

METHODS AND ARGUMENTS

eds2xdd($filename, [$encoding])

Here, the [] indicate an optional parameter.

Returns the EDS' content as XML string on success or C<undef> on error

$encoding may be used to indicate the encoding of the file, e.g. 'utf8' or
'encoding(iso-8859-1)'.

Do not add a prefix to $encoding, such as '<' or '<:'.

eds2xdd_string($string)

Returns the EDS string as XML string

GIT REPOSITORY

http://github.com/epl-viz/Convert-EDS-XDD

SEE ALSO

EPL-Viz - Visualization for Ethernet POWERLINK

App::eds2xdd

AUTHOR

Ahmad Fatoum <athreef@cpan.org>, http://a3f.at

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2017 Ahmad Fatoum

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.