RPC-XML

Changes for version 0.54 - 2004-04-14

Extended the $CLEAN list in Makefile.PL to also delete all *.ppd files. Also bumped the package version number to 0.54.
Applied a patch from Tim Peoples that does three things: the 301 error code in RPC::XML::Procedure::call now includes signature info when a signature mismatch occurs. RPC::XML::smart_encode turns undef values into zero-length RPC::XML::string objects. Lastly, the RPC::XML::string::as_string method turns undef into null values as well.
Small change to the XML character-escaping in RPC::XML::string's as_string method, so that a lookup-table is used. The same table is now used to escape keys in structs, as well. Added tests to cover this. This was suggested by Johnathan Kupferer.
Made a small change for the sake of syntax pedantry to t/20_parse.t.
Fix to the error-handling for a failed LWP::UserAgent->request call in RPC::XML::Client::send_request (thanks to Jasper Cramwinckel). Also got a small glitch covered in one of the calls to the inflate() method in Compress::Zlib. Thanks to John Tobing for that one.
Dropped a regex-compare in favor of a string-compare for the special case of the XML tag being dateTime.iso8601. In some locales, the 'lc' caused problems. This is near RPC::XML::Parser line 288.
Applied a patch to Apache::RPC::Server (supplied by Tim Peoples) to support "NoCompression" as a PerlSetVar directive, the function of which is to disable compression support upon demand.
Fixed two minor typos in the Apache::RPC::Server docs, the names for two of the PerlSetVar directives.
Added to the docs the fact that struct keys are now escaped. Also put some coverage in the docs on the two ways of initializing a struct object.
Applied a patch from Chris Darroch to allow better handling of arguments in RPC::XML::Server::server_loop. While the HTTP::Daemon portion was fine with collapsing the arg list into a hash, the Net::Server portion actually has documented behavior when it sees the same argument more than once, and collapsing to a hash caused these extra arguments to be lost.