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Welcome to the DBIx::XHTML_Table homepage. The homepage is still in the early stages of construction. The target browser for this site is Mozilla 0.9.7 - but i do check in other browsers from time to time. If you spot some glaring piece of CSS monstronsity that surely is not suppose to look like that then please let me know.
DBIx::XHTML_Table is a DBI extension that creates an XHTML table from a database query. It was created to fill the gap between fetching rows from a database and transforming them into a web browser renderable table. Of the two tasks, DBIx::XHTML_Table focuses primarly on transformation.
Below is a sample Perl script using DBIx::XHTML_Table on the left and the resulting XHTML rendered on the right. This example is broken into pieces for any easy intro into DBIx::XHTML_Table at the Tutorial.
my $table = DBIx::XHTML_Table->new( 'DBI:vendor:database:host', 'user', 'pass', ); $table->exec_query(" select artist, album, title as song from temp order by artist,album "); $table->modify(table => { border => 1, }); $table->modify(th => { style => { color => '#a9b9a9', background => '#444444', } }); $table->modify(tr => { style => { background => ['#bacaba','#cbdbcb'] } }); print $table->output(); |
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DBIx::XHTML_Table does not enforce XHTML attributes. In fact, it is designed to accept ANY attribute whether valid or not. For example, the above code uses the HTML attribute 'border'. This flexible nature of DBIx::XHTML_Table allows you to choose which style to use, and hopefully will accomodate any new attributes as well.
Copyright © 2015 Jeffrey Hayes Anderson | Most recently modified [Thurs May 08 11:38:46 2015] |