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NAME
     XML::Parser::Style::Tree

SYNOPSIS
       use XML::Parser;
       my $p = XML::Parser->new(Style => 'Tree');
       my $tree = $p->parsefile('foo.xml');

DESCRIPTION
     This module implements XML::Parser's Tree style parser.

     When parsing a document, "parse()" will return a parse tree
     for the document. Each node in the tree takes the form of a
     tag, content pair. Text nodes are represented with a
     pseudo-tag of "0" and the string that is their content. For
     elements, the content is an array reference. The first item
     in the array is a (possibly empty) hash reference containing
     attributes. The remainder of the array is a sequence of
     tag-content pairs representing the content of the element.

     So for example the result of parsing:

       Hello thereHowdydo

     would be:
                  Tag   Content
       ==================================================================
       [foo, [{}, head, [{id => "a"}, 0, "Hello ",  em, [{}, 0,
     "there"]],
                   bar, [         {}, 0, "Howdy",  ref, [{}]],
                     0, "do"
             ]
       ]

     The root document "foo", has 3 children: a "head" element, a
     "bar" element and the text "do". After the empty attribute
     hash, these are represented in it's contents by 3 tag-
     content pairs.

















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