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@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ + XML::Parser Version 2.31 + +Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Larry Wall and Clark Cooper. +All rights reserved. +This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it +under the same terms as Perl itself. + +This is a Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat. +It requires at least version 5.004 of perl and it requires that you have +release 1.95.0 or greater of expat installed. You can download expat +from: + + http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ + +The documentation for this extension can be found in pod format at the end +of the files Parser.pm and Expat/Expat.pm. The perldoc program, provided with +the perl distribution, can be used to view this documentation. + +This was modified from the original XML::Parser created by Larry Wall. + +To configure this module, cd to the directory that contains this README file +and type the following: + + perl Makefile.PL + +Alternatively, if you plan to install XML::Parser somewhere other than +your system's perl library directory. You can type something like this: + + perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/me/perl INSTALLDIRS=perl + +Then to build you run make. + + make + +You can then test the module by typing: + + make test + +There are some sample utilities in the samples directory along with an +xml form of the XML specification to test them on. You may need to change +the '#!' line at the top of these utilities to what is appropriate for +your system. If you're going to play around with them prior to installing +the module, you would need to add the blib paths to your perl search +path, like this (assuming your current directory is samples): + + perl -I../blib/lib -I../blib/arch xmlcomments REC-xml-19980210.xml + +or set your PERLLIB environment variable. + +If you have write access to the installation directories, you may then +install by typing: + + make install + +Discussion on features and bugs of this software and general discussion +on topics relating to perl and XML takes place on the perl-xml mailing +list, to which you can subscribe by sending mail to: + + subscribe-perl-xml@lyris.activestate.com + +Differences from Version 2.30 +============================= + +Version 2.31 is a minor bugfix release to allow XML::Parser to +work under the forthcoming Perl 5.8.0 release. There are no functional +changes. + +Differences from Version 2.29 +============================= + +Expat is no longer included with this package. It must now be already +installed on your system as a library. You may download the library +version of expat from http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/. After +downloading, expat must be configured (an automatic script does this), +built and installed. + +A workaround has been provided for those people who couldn't compile +Expat.xs with a perl 5.6.0 with USE_5005THREADS on. + +A bug that prevented IO::Handler from being read by the parse method +has been fixed. + +Fixed a bug in reading external entities with incremental parsing. + +Clark Cooper + coopercc@netheaven.com |