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.IX Title "STAG-FLATTEN 1"
.TH STAG-FLATTEN 1 "2009-12-14" "perl v5.18.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
stag\-flatten \- turns stag data into a flat table
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\&  stag\-flatten \-c name \-c person/name dept MyFile.xml
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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reads in a file in a stag format, and 'flattens' it to a tab-delimited
table format. given this data:
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.Vb 7
\&  (company
\&   (dept
\&    (name "special\-operations")
\&    (person
\&     (name "james\-bond"))
\&    (person
\&     (name "fred"))))
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the above command will return a two column table
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.Vb 2
\&  special\-operations      james\-bond
\&  special\-operations      fred
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If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the
cartesian product will be calculated
.SH "USAGE"
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\&  stag\-flatten [\-p PARSER] [\-c COLS] [\-c COLS] NODE <file>
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.SH "ARGUMENTS"
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.IX Item "-p|parser FORMAT"
\&\s-1FORMAT\s0 is one of xml, sxpr or itext
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xml assumed as default
.IP "\-c|column \s-1COL1,COL2,COL3,..\s0" 4
.IX Item "-c|column COL1,COL2,COL3,.."
the name of the columns/elements to write out
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this can be specified either with multiple \-c arguments, or with a
comma-seperated (no spaces) list of column (terminal node) names after
a single \-c
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.IX Item "-n|nest"
if set, then the output will be a compress repeating values into the
same row; each cell in the table will be enclosed by {}, and will
contain a comma-delimited set of values
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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Data::Stag
