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.
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You'd hence better check that using this version of the module
does not break anything in your code.
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 project: http://code.google.com/p/perl-xml-iodef/issues/list
Use in production systems is at your own risks.
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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 project: http://code.google.com/p/perl-xml-iodef/issues/list
NEW IN THIS RELEASE
The API is now compliant with the current draft of IODEF available
from http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5070.
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
Copyright 2010 Wes Young (wes@barely3am.com)
This module is free software under BSD license.