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NAME
       stag-flatten - turns stag data into a flat table

SYNOPSIS
         stag-flatten -c name -c person/name dept MyFile.xml

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

       If there are multiple values for the columns within the node, then the
       cartesian product will be calculated

USAGE
         stag-flatten [-p PARSER] [-c COLS] [-c COLS] NODE <file>

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

           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

       -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

SEE ALSO
       Data::Stag

perl v5.20.2                      2009-12-14                   STAG-FLATTEN(1)