NAME

Apache::MimeXML - mod_perl mime encoding sniffer for XML files

SYNOPSIS

Simply add this line to srm.conf or httpd.conf:

  PerlTypeHandler +Apache::MimeXML

Alternatively add it only for certain files or directories using the standard Apache methods. There is about a 30% slowdown for files using this module, so you probably want to restrict it to certain XML locations only.

DESCRIPTION

An XML Content-Type sniffer. This module reads the encoding attribute in the xml declaration and returns an appropriate content-type heading. If no encoding declaration is found it returns utf-8 or utf-16 depending on the specific encoding.

CONFIGURATION

There are a few small configuration options for this module, allowing you to set various parameters.

XMLMimeType

Allows you to set the mime type for XML files:

    PerlSetVar XMLMimeType application/xml

That changes the mime type from the default text/xml to application/xml. You can use this on a per-directory basis.

XMLUtf16EncodingBE

Allows you to set the encoding of big-endian (read: normal) utf 16 (unicode) documents. The default is 'utf-16'

    PerlSetVar XMLUtf16EncodingBE utf-16-be

XMLUtf16EncodingLE

Allows you to set the encoding of little-endian utf-16 encoded documents. The default is 'utf-16-le'

    PerlSetVar XMLUtf16EncodingLE utf-16-wierd

Use From Other Modules

If you want to use Apache::MimeXML's detection routines from other modules, you can manually call the check_for_xml() or check_for_xml_file() functions yourself. check_for_xml_file() takes a single parameter of a filename, and check_for_xml() can take either an XML string, or an open filehandle of some sort. The functions returns the encoding if they find that the parameter contains XML, otherwise they return nothing:

    my $encoding;
    if ($encoding = 
        Apache::MimeXML::check_for_xml_file($filename)) {
        print "$filename is XML in the $encoding encoding\n";
    }

AUTHOR

Matt Sergeant matt@sergeant.org

LICENCE

This module is distributed under the same terms as perl itself