AxKit

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Changes for version 1.4

Config directives no longer implemented by Apache::ExtUtils
New TaglibHelper module, makes writing XSP taglibs almost trivial.
Build checks for iconv library - should make things smoother on *BSD
Known bug in Filter provider is fixed
Major memory leak cleanup
Added LibXSLT language module (for use with XML::LibXSLT). This is over twice as fast as XML::Sablotron, and more compliant.
Added AxAddURIProcessor config directive
Added AxLogDeclines config directive (replaces PerlSetVar equivalent)
Added import_templates() to XPathScript
XSP now uses SAX to generate code
Sablot.pm allows you to set the outgoing mime type
Many fixes to AxKit.xs compiled directives (hopefully making it work for more people now)
Removed eval{} stuff around XML parsing in Provider.pm as it seemed to be causing segfaults in Perl 5.6.1
Fixes to LibXSLT language module to make it work with new versions of XML::LibXSLT (and the core libxslt library).
Cleaned up error handling, and error stylesheets significantly
Removed Storable from XPathScript (to get control of the segfaults)
Implemented has_changed() for all "cache" bits
Improved error handling with an AxStackTrace config directive allowing the Error Stylesheet to get a full stack trace.
Doc fixes to stop pod2man complaining.
AxKit now adds AxKit/Version to your Server string (for netcraft!)
Switched xml_string to pnotes so you can have binary nulls in the output (e.g. for PDFs).
Added some configuration tidbits to INSTALL
Much better (though not 100% there) test harness code
Major fixes to Makefile.PL (to work better on *BSD and Win32)
XML::Parser no longer needed if you have libxml2 installed. This will allow AxKit to work with Apaches that have expat enabled!
XSP pages can implement a has_changed() function, which allows you to control the caching of the results (can have significant performance increases on dynamic pages)
Providers responsible for returning declined (this allows for non-file providers to not end up in a 404 when doing e.g. passthru)
Added AxNoCache option to turn off caching on purpose.
split AxKit.xs into more managable files
Better error messages from CharsetConv (iconv)
Added a PDF slideshow builder called AxPoint
Sablot fix for changing content-type.
Much cleaner handling of character set conversions
AxKit::Apache->request() added (similar to Apache->request())
Cache maintains content-type more sanely.
Many, many minor bug fixes.

Documentation

libapreq

Apache Request C Library

Modules

Apache::MimeXML

mod_perl mime encoding sniffer for XML files

AxKit

an XML Application Server for Apache

Compress::Zlib

Interface to zlib compression library

Digest::MD2

Perl interface to the MD2 Algorithm

Digest::MD5

Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm

Digest::SHA1

Perl interface to the SHA-1 Algorithm

SHA

Perl interface to the NIST Secure Hash Algorithm

Digest

Modules that calculate message digests

Digest::HMAC

Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication

Digest::HMAC_MD5

Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication

Digest::HMAC_SHA1

Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication

MD5

Perl interface to the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm

Error

Error/exception handling in an OO-ish way

XML::Parser::Expat

Lowlevel access to James Clark's expat XML parser

XML::Parser

A perl module for parsing XML documents

Apache::AxKit::Language

base class for all processors

Apache::AxKit::Language::XPathScript

An XML Stylesheet Language

Apache::AxKit::Language::XSP

eXtensible Server Pages

Apache::AxKit::Language::XSP::TaglibHelper

module to make it easier to write a taglib

Apache::AxKit::Plugins::Fragment

Fragment plugin

Apache::AxKit::Plugins::Passthru

allow passthru=1 in querystring

Apache::AxKit::Provider

base Provider class

Apache::AxKit::StyleChooser::Cookie

Choose stylesheets based on a browser cookie

Apache::AxKit::StyleChooser::FileSuffix

Choose stylesheet using file suffix

Apache::AxKit::StyleChooser::PathInfo

Choose stylesheet using PATH_INFO

Apache::AxKit::StyleChooser::QueryString

Choose stylesheet using querystring

Apache::AxKit::StyleChooser::UserAgent

Choose stylesheets based on the user agent.

Apache::Cookie

HTTP Cookies Class

Apache::Request

Methods for dealing with client request data

Apache::libapreq

Generate compiler and linker flags for libapreq

Provides

Apache::AxKit::Cache

in lib/Apache/AxKit/Cache.pm

Apache::AxKit::CharsetConv

in lib/Apache/AxKit/CharsetConv.pm

Apache::AxKit::ConfigReader

in lib/Apache/AxKit/ConfigReader.pm

Apache::AxKit::Exception