XML::Parser Version 2.21 Copyright (c) 1998 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. The documentation for this extension can be found in pod format at the end of the files Parser.pm and Expat/Expat.pm. The expat distribution is included in full in this distribution in the directory Expat/expat. This was modified from the original XML::Parser created by Larry Wall. This is a beta version and there's resistance to making radical API changes at this time, but minor, evolutionary changes may occur as I get feedback from the people on the perl-xml mailing list. [You can subscribe to this list by sending a message to subscribe-perl-xml@lyris.activestate.com.] 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 Clark Cooper coopercc@netheaven.com