Prerequisites ------------- Of course, XTM::base relies heavily on other Perl packages. Most of them (hopefully all) should be resolved automatically if you use the CPAN frontend. One notable thing is that XTM::base depends on the rather new XML::LibXML which in turn needs the libxml2 libraries. For Debian users this is trivially done with apt-get install libxml2 apt-get install libxml2-dev The others can find sources (RPMs?) at http://www.xmlsoft.org/ Please let me know if I missed a point here. Installation ------------ This base package contains Perl extension interfaces for Topic Maps http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/ To build the extensions, unpack this distribution somewhere, and exercise the usual incantation: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install You will need perl version 5.6.1 or better to install these modules. You will find an overview in XTM::base, further documentation is embedded in the individual modules. Documentation ------------- You can learn about Topic Maps in general at http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/ (XTM standard) http://topicmaps.bond.edu.au/ (tutorials, other stuff) http://easytopicmaps.com/ (tutorials, lotta links and hints) Most of the Perl packages come with a POD description. Support ------- You can either - mail to the author (rho@telecoma.net) - discuss this in one of the topicmap mailing lists, or - create an bug entry in rt.cpan.org Copyright 2001,2002 Robert Barta, rho@telecoma.net This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.