1 XML::Parser Version 2.31 2 3Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Larry Wall and Clark Cooper. 4All rights reserved. 5This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 6under the same terms as Perl itself. 7 8This is a Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat. 9It requires at least version 5.004 of perl and it requires that you have 10release 1.95.0 or greater of expat installed. You can download expat 11from: 12 13 http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ 14 15The documentation for this extension can be found in pod format at the end 16of the files Parser.pm and Expat/Expat.pm. The perldoc program, provided with 17the perl distribution, can be used to view this documentation. 18 19This was modified from the original XML::Parser created by Larry Wall. 20 21To configure this module, cd to the directory that contains this README file 22and type the following: 23 24 perl Makefile.PL 25 26Alternatively, if you plan to install XML::Parser somewhere other than 27your system's perl library directory. You can type something like this: 28 29 perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/me/perl INSTALLDIRS=perl 30 31Then to build you run make. 32 33 make 34 35You can then test the module by typing: 36 37 make test 38 39There are some sample utilities in the samples directory along with an 40xml form of the XML specification to test them on. You may need to change 41the '#!' line at the top of these utilities to what is appropriate for 42your system. If you're going to play around with them prior to installing 43the module, you would need to add the blib paths to your perl search 44path, like this (assuming your current directory is samples): 45 46 perl -I../blib/lib -I../blib/arch xmlcomments REC-xml-19980210.xml 47 48or set your PERLLIB environment variable. 49 50If you have write access to the installation directories, you may then 51install by typing: 52 53 make install 54 55Discussion on features and bugs of this software and general discussion 56on topics relating to perl and XML takes place on the perl-xml mailing 57list, to which you can subscribe by sending mail to: 58 59 subscribe-perl-xml@lyris.activestate.com 60 61Differences from Version 2.30 62============================= 63 64Version 2.31 is a minor bugfix release to allow XML::Parser to 65work under the forthcoming Perl 5.8.0 release. There are no functional 66changes. 67 68Differences from Version 2.29 69============================= 70 71Expat is no longer included with this package. It must now be already 72installed on your system as a library. You may download the library 73version of expat from http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/. After 74downloading, expat must be configured (an automatic script does this), 75built and installed. 76 77A workaround has been provided for those people who couldn't compile 78Expat.xs with a perl 5.6.0 with USE_5005THREADS on. 79 80A bug that prevented IO::Handler from being read by the parse method 81has been fixed. 82 83Fixed a bug in reading external entities with incremental parsing. 84 85Clark Cooper 86 coopercc@netheaven.com 87