NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

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

USAGE

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

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

(alternatively this argument can be written after the filename is specified)

BUGS

still not working quite right...

SEE ALSO

Data::Stag