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Rex::Group::Lookup::XML - read hostnames and groups from a XML file

With this module you can define hostgroups out of an xml file.

 use Rex::Group::Lookup::XML;
 groups_xml "file.xml";

With this function you can read groups from xml files.

File example:

 <configuration>
   <group name="database">
       <server name="machine01" user="root" password="foob4r" sudo="true" hdd="300" loc="/opt" />
   </group>
   <group name="application">
       <server name="machine01" user="root" password="foob4r" sudo="true" hdd="50" loc="/export" />
       <server name="machine02" user="root" password="foob5r" sudo="true"/>
   </group>
   <group name="profiler">
       <server name="machine03" user="root" password="blue123"/>
   </group>
 </configuration>

The XML file is validated against the DTD schema stored in "Rex::Group::Lookup::XML::$schema_file" as string.

A variable that contains the XSD schema for which the XML is validated against.

2023-03-06 perl v5.36.0