Syndication::NITF, a Perl module supporting the NITF news article format was released to CPAN on 19 December 2001. It should be available from your local mirror via http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/B/BQ/BQUINN/
This is version 0.02, the first public release. Here is an excerpt from the README: >>>> Syndication::NITF -- a NITF v3.0 library for Perl Syndication::NITF is an object-oriented Perl interface to NITF documents, allowing you to manage (and one day create) NITF documents without any specialised NITF or XML knowledge. NITF is a standard format for the markup of textual news content (eg newspaper and magazine articles), ratified by the International Press Telecommunications Council (http://www.iptc.org). This module supports the version 3.0 DTD of NITF. It makes no attempt to support eariler versions of the DTD. You can find out more about NITF at http://www.nitf.org/ or http://www.iptc.org/ LATEST VERSION AND WHAT'S NEW The latest version is 0.02, released 19 December 2001. Download: http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BQ/BQUINN/ What's New in 0.02: * Example Parser Simple example parser added that outputs information about an NITF file, handling most types of tag. See the Changes file for previous releases. <<<< At the moment it's fairly basic, and doesn't allow you to create NITF files. Other plans for the future include better support of IPTC subject codes, integration with my Syndication::NewsML module, and automatic handling of updates, corrections, embargoes etc. Hope this helps someone out there. Brendan. -- Brendan Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clueful Consulting Pty Ltd Phone +61 4 0076 0077 GPO Box 2747EE within Australia: 0400 760 077 Melbourne, Australia http://www.clueful.com.au/brendan/
