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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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