NAME

Rex::Group::Lookup::XML - read hostnames and groups from a XML file

DESCRIPTION

With this module you can define hostgroups out of an xml file.

SYNOPSIS

use Rex::Group::Lookup::XML;
groups_xml "file.xml";

EXPORTED FUNCTIONS

groups_xml($file)

With this function you can read groups from xml files.

File Example:

<configuration> <group name="database"> <server name="machine01" user="root" password="foob4r" sudo="true" hdd="300" loc="/opt" /> </group> <group name="application"> <server name="machine01" user="root" password="foob4r" sudo="true" hdd="50" loc="/export" /> <server name="machine02" user="root" password="foob5r" sudo="true"/> </group> <group name="profiler"> <server name="machine03" user="root" password="blue123"/> </group> </configuration>

C<groups_xml($file);>

The XML file is validated against the following DTD schema:

$schema_file

A global that defines the XSD schema for which the XML is check against.