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# Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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Metacat.pm -- perl client to the Metacat XML database
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Version: 0.0 Alpha 1 Release
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Feedback and bugs to: knb-software@nceas.ucsb.edu
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Contributors: Matt Jones (jones@nceas.ucsb.edu)
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Chris Jones (cjones@lifesci.ucsb.edu)
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This is a Metacat Client library that allows access to Metacat, a flexible
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database storage system for XML formatted documents. The client library
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provides facilities for inserting, updating, and deleting XML documents
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from metacat, as well as querying metacat using the Metacat pathquery
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query syntax.
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INSTALLATION
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perl Makefile.PL
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make
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make test
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make install
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If you want the tests to work, you'll need to edit the metacatUrl, username,
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and password parameters in the test script and set them to real values for
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a working Metacat database.
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USAGE
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Use "perldoc Metacat" after installation for detailed documentation.
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Details of the Metacat architecture can be found on the website for
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the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB):
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http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/metacat.html
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Contributions to this work are welcome. Please see the above web site
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for details on how to contribute.
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This software is copyrighted by The Regents of the University of California
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and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
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and licensed under the GNU GPL; see the 'LICENSE' file for
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details.
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This material is based upon work supported by the
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National Science Foundation under Grant No. DEB99-80154 and DBI99-04777.
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Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this
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material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect
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the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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