DESCRIPTION

  XML::IODEF - A perl module for easily creating/parsing IODEF Documents

  IODEF module is a wrapper around XML::Simple, providing an interface
  designed to simplify the parsing and creation of IODEF documents . IODEF
  is an XML based standard for the exchange of information related toi
  computer security incidents typically exchanged between collaborating
  Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs)

  The interface provided by XML::IODEF is designed to make it very simple
  to build an IODEF document.

  XML::IODEF is an modified version of XML::IDMEF.

  ******* WARNING ******* WARNING ******* WARNING ******* WARNING *******

   You'd hence better check that using this version of the module
   does not break anything in your code (it should not, but, well...
   you know...)

   And of course: this is a beta release and has not been thoroughly
   tested. Please try it out if you can and report success/failure to
   the author (johng@cpan.org).

   Use in production systems is at your own risks.

  ******* WARNING ******* WARNING ******* WARNING ******* WARNING *******




PREREQUISITES

  Requires XML::DOM and a XML::Parser.


BUILDING/INSTALLING

  Once the archive is unpacked, use these commands:

      perl Makefile.PL
      make
      make test
      make install

  If for some reason, you can't run these commands, you can simple copy 
  the IODEF.pm file to your lib/XML directory. To find out which paths
  perl uses to locate modules, do 
  'perl -e "print join(\"\n\", @INC), \"\n\";"'


STATUS

  This version is a beta release, and has not yet been thoroughly
  tested in production environment. It has been succesfully run on both
  linux and openbsd. 
  If you encounter any problems installing or running this release, please
  email the author and provide him as much information as possible on the
  bug and its context.

  Please send any feedback to the author: johng@cpan.org


NEW IN THIS RELEASE

  The API is now compliant with the current draft of IODEF available
  from http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-inch-iodef-01.txt.

  See 'Changes' for a detailed history.


BUGS
  
  XML::IODEF uses internally a simplified version of the IODEF DTD, which makes
  that this module will fail to create some very specific IODEF documents. 


COPYRIGHT

  Copyright 2002 Erwan Lemonnier.
  Copyright 2003 John Green

  This module is free software under BSD license.

