NAME

   Convert::EDS::XDD - Convert CANopen EDS to POWERLINK XDD

SYNOPSIS

     perl -MConvert::EDS::XDD=eds2xdd -e "print eds2xdd 'profile.eds'" > profile.xdd

DESCRIPTION

   EDS is an ini based format specified by the CiA e.V. in order to
   describe CANopen devices. The Ethernet POWERLINK Standardization Group
   specifies an EDS-based XML format for EPL devices.

   This module Takes in an EDS file or a string with its content and
   returns a XDD string. A self-contained (fatpacked) epl2xdd script is
   available at the Github releases page
   <https://github.com/epl-viz/Convert-EDS-XDD/releases/latest>.

LIMITATIONS

   May not handle all details of the EDS. Pull requests and reports
   (issues on Github) welcome.

METHODS AND ARGUMENTS

   eds2xdd($filename, [$encoding])

     Here, the [] indicate an optional parameter.

     Returns the EDS' content as XML string on success or undef on error
     in file contents.

     Function croaks if opening file fails.

     $encoding may be used to indicate the encoding of the file, e.g.
     'utf8' or 'encoding(iso-8859-1)'.

     Do not add a prefix to $encoding, such as '<' or '<:'.

   eds2xdd_string($string)

     Returns the EDS string as XML string

GIT REPOSITORY

   http://github.com/epl-viz/Convert-EDS-XDD

SEE ALSO

   EPL-Viz - Visualization for Ethernet POWERLINK
   <http://github.com/epl-viz>

AUTHOR

   Ahmad Fatoum <[email protected]>, http://a3f.at

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

   Copyright (C) 2017 Ahmad Fatoum

   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   under the same terms as Perl itself.