Apache::XBEL is an Apache mod_perl handler that uses XSLT to transform XML Bookmarks Exchange Language (XBEL) files into exciting and foofy dynamic HTML documents. Documents are rendered as collapsible outlines and individual nodes may be viewed and bookmarked as unique pages, so you don't have to click through a gazillion nested leaves to find what you're looking for.

If you have the Text::Outline package installed on your server, you can use it to convert a number of outline(r) formats as XBEL for use with the handler.

Once individual nodes/pages have been rendered, they are cached to reduce the load on the server. Cache files are updated whenever any of the widgets involved in the transformation are modified.

This module will currently fail, with varying degrees of gracefulness, in pre 5.0 browsers. It also requires that both JavaScript and CSS be enabled. There are plans to render vanilla HTML, for older or text-only browsers, but they haven't happened yet.

It has been tested with IE5.5 (Win), IE5 (Mac), Netscape 6.01 (Win/Mac), Mozilla 0.9 (Win/Mac) and I'm told it renders properly in Mozilla under FreeBSD.

If you are running this handler on a server that is also running AxKit, Apache::XBEL may periodically fail and return a server error. more

• xbel file  source is included with distribution

• opml file #1  source

• opml file #2  source

• opml file #3  source

• emacs outline file  source has been converted from opml to emacs

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apache-xbel-1.2.tar.gz