NAME

stag-splitter.pl - splits a stag file into multiple files

SYNOPSIS

  stag-splitter.pl -split person -name social_security_no file.xml

DESCRIPTION

Splits a file using a user specified parser (default xml) around a specified split node, naming each file according to the name argument

the files will be named anonymously, unless the '-name' switch is specified; this will use the value of the specified element as the filename

eg; if we have

  <top>
    <a>
      <b>foo</b>
      <c>yah</c>
      <d>
        <e>xxx</e>
      </d>
    </a>
    <a>
      <b>bar</b>
      <d>
        <e>wibble</e>
      </d>
    </a>
  </top>

if we run

  stag-splitter.pl -split a -name b

it will generate two files, ``foo.xml'' and ``bar.xml''

input format can be 'xml', 'sxpr' or 'itext' - if this is left blank the format will be guessed from the file suffix

the output format defaults to the same as the input format, but another can be chosen.

files go in the current directory, but this can be overridden with the '-dir' switch

USAGE

   stag-splitter.pl [-split <ELEMENT-NAME>] [-name <ELEMENT-NAME>] [-dir <DIR>] [-format <INPUT-FORMAT>] [-outformat <OUTPUT-FORMAT>] <FILENAMES>

-p|parser FORMAT: FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext, or the name of a perl module; xml assumed as default
-w|writer FORMAT: FORMAT is one of xml, sxpr or itext, or the name of a perl module
-split|s NODE: node to split on
-name|n NODE: field/element to use when naming files; will use surrogate IDs if this argument not specified
-dir|d DIR: write files to this directory