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[ via XMLHack ] Here’s an Apache module for use under mod-Perl that will allow your server to recognize an XML document request and route that request through a handler that applies a stylesheet to the document.

[ via XMLHack ] It’s rough and doesn’t support key elements like for-each, but there’s an XSLT parser for Perl which I hope means XSLT will be adopted by more developers.

[ via Freshmeat ] rotfl’s not just a chatroom acronym, it’s a new text formatting language implemented in Perl.

An XSL parser for Perl.

[ via Scripting Meridian ] OpenScript is a W*API plugin for Macintosh HTTP servers which allows you to embed Perl, Usertalk and AppleScript in HTML files and have the server execute them. Now we need the ability to wire in objects as we can using Java or COM on U*NIX and NT.

Genpage is a Perl script that traverses a target directory and processes all the HTML template files inside. [found on Freshmeat]

David Megginson’s released a Perl module for writing well-formed XML:

use XML::Writer;

use IO;

my $output = new IO::File(”>output.xml”);

my $writer = new XML::Writer($output);

$writer->startTag(”greeting”,

“class” => “simple”);

$writer->characters(”Hello, world!”);

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Daily Update is a perl script of the WIDL variety that implements a ’screen scraper’ to fetch data off other Web pages. It has its own filter language and over a hundred filters written for several sites. You run it as a cron job, then it writes out a ’start page’ with the information sucked [...]