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. 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. ******* 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 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.