Source: libnet-z3950-pqf-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0) Build-Depends-Indep: perl (>= 5.8.8-7ubuntu3) Maintainer: Mike Taylor Standards-Version: 3.7.2 Package: libnet-z3950-pqf-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, Description: Perl extension for parsing PQF (Prefix Query Format) This library provides a parser for PQF (Prefix Query Format), an ugly but precise string format for expressing Z39.50 Type-1 queries. This format is widely used behind the scenes of Z39.50 applications, and is also used extensively with test-harness programs such as the YAZ command-line client, yaz-client. A few particularly misguided souls have been known to type it by hand. . Unlike PQF itself, this module is simple to use. Create a parser object, then pass PQF strings into its parse() method to yield parse-trees. The trees are made up of nodes whose types are subclasses of Net::Z3950::PQF::Node. and have names of the form Net::Z3950::PQF::somethingNode. You may find it helpful to use Data::Dumper to visualise the structure of the returned parse-trees. . This description was automagically extracted from the module by dh-make-perl.