Note: this release is published as a beta, as it contains no tests so far. Nevertheless, it is considered stable as it was used in several larger projects. INTRO Welcome! This is the PerlPoint::Generator::XML package, which allows you to produce XML documents from PerlPoint sources. It is a "plugin" package for PerlPoint::Package which needs to be installed first. After successful installation, you can call C with the C target, like so: pp2tdo -target XML ... yoursource.pp This distribution comes with the mandatory default formatter, so this call is equivalent to pp2tdo -target XML -format Default ... yoursource.pp More formatters are available in other distributions. Please search CPAN or the project page for C modules. As usual with C, the generator brings new options. Please add C<-help> to a valid call of C to get a list of all the options available. INSTALLATION Install this package the usual manual way by unpacking make test install distclean Or use C or C to install including all prerequisites. DOCUMENTATION Each module comes with its own POD documentation. For an introduction on how to use PerlPoint, please see the manual provided with the C distribution. SUPPPORT A PerlPoint mailing list is set up to discuss usage, ideas, bugs, suggestions and translator development. To subscribe, please send an empty message to perlpoint-subscribe@perl.org. If you prefer, you can contact me via perl@jochen-stenzel.de as well. CREDITS Benjamin Holzmann, the author of C, helped me when I had questions about his module. It's a handy module to produce XML in the tradition of C, by the way. AUTHOR Copyright (c) Jochen Stenzel (perl@jochen-stenzel.de), 1999-2005. All rights reserved. This module is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License distributed with Perl version 5.003 or (at your option) any later version. Please refer to the Artistic License that came with your Perl distribution for more details. The Artistic License should have been included in your distribution of Perl. It resides in the file named "Artistic" at the top-level of the Perl source tree (where Perl was downloaded/unpacked - ask your system administrator if you dont know where this is). Alternatively, the current version of the Artistic License distributed with Perl can be viewed on-line on the World-Wide Web (WWW) from the following URL: http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html. DISCLAIMER This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but is provided "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either expressed or implied, INCLUDING, without limitation, the implied warranties of MERCHANTABILITY and FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The ENTIRE RISK as to the quality and performance of the software IS WITH YOU (the holder of the software). Should the software prove defective, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION. IN NO EVENT WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY CREATE, MODIFY, OR DISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER ENTITY FOR ANY KIND OF DAMAGES (no matter how awful - not even if they arise from known or unknown flaws in the software). Please refer to the Artistic License that came with your Perl distribution for more details.