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