NAME

Apache::XPointer::XPath - mod_perl handler to address XML fragments using XPath.

SYNOPSIS

 <Directory /foo/bar>

  <FilesMatch "\.xml$">
   SetHandler   perl-script
   PerlHandler  Apache::XPointer::XPath

   PerlSetVar   XPointerSendRangeAs  "XML"
  </FilesMatch>

 </Directory>

 #

 my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new();
 my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://example.com/foo/bar/baz.xml");
 $req->header("Range" => qq(xmlns("x=x-urn:example")xpointer(*//x:thingy)));

 my $res = $ua->request($req);

DESCRIPTION

Apache::XPointer is a mod_perl handler to address XML fragments using the HTTP 1.1 Range header and the XPath scheme, as described in the paper : A Semantic Web Resource Protocol: XPointer and HTTP.

Additionally, the handler may also be configured to recognize a conventional CGI parameter as a valid range identifier.

If no 'range' property is found, then the original document is sent unaltered.

OPTIONS

XPointerAllowCGIRange

If set to On then the handler will check the CGI parameters sent with the request for an argument defining an XPath range.

CGI parameters are checked only if no HTTP Range header is present.

Case insensitive.

XPointerCGIRangeParam

The name of the CGI parameter to check for an XPath range.

Default is range

XPointerSendRangeAs

• multi-part

  Returns matches as type multipart/mixed :

   --match
   Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
  
   <foo xmlns="x-urn:example:foo" xmlns:baz="x-urn:example:baz">
    <baz:bar>hello</baz:bar>
   </foo>
  
   --match
   Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
  
   <foo xmlns="x-urn:example:foo" xmlns:baz="x-urn:example:baz">
    <baz:bar>world</baz:bar>
   </foo>
  
   --match--

• XML

  Return matches as type application/xml :

   <xp:range xmlns:xp="x-urn:cpan:ascope:apache-xpointer#"
             xmlns:default="x-urn:example.com">
    <xp:match>
  
     <default:foo>
      <default:bar>hello</default:bar>
     </default:foo>
  
    </xp:match>
    <xp:match>
  
     <default:foo>
      <default:bar>world</default:bar>
     </default:foo>
  
    </xp:match>
   </xp:range>

Default is XML; case-insensitive.

MOD_PERL COMPATIBILITY

This handler will work with both mod_perl 1.x and mod_perl 2.x; it works better in 1.x because it supports Apache::Request which does a better job of parsing CGI parameters.

VERSION

1.0

DATE

$Date: 2004/11/13 23:30:02 $

AUTHOR

Aaron Straup Cope <ascope@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

Apache::XPointer

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2004 Aaron Straup Cope. All rights reserved.

This is free software, you may use it and distribute it under the same terms as Perl itself.