SYNOPSIS

EDG::WP4::CCM::XMLPanProfile->interpret_node($tag, $xmltree);

DESCRIPTION

Module that iterprets an XML profile in pan format, and generates all the needed metadata, to be inserted in the cache DB.

This metadata includes a checksum for each element in the profile, the Pan basic type, the element's name (that will help to reconstruct the path)...

Should be used by EDG::WP4::CCM::Fetch only.

This module has only one method for the outside world:

interpret_node

Interprets an XML tree, which is assumed to have a format="pan" attribute, returning the appropriate data structure with all the attributes and values.