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Quick overview of things that are new in v2.x of WebPAC |
Quick overview of things that are new in v2.x of WebPAC |
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=head1 DESCRIPTION |
=head1 Changes from version 1 |
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This document will describe new features in WebPAC version v2.x. |
This document will describe new features in WebPAC version v2.x. |
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It will also attempt to document upgrade procedure to migrate |
It will also attempt to document upgrade procedure to migrate |
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For you, the user, that will result in changes to all templates. I'm sorry |
For you, the user, that will result in changes to all templates. I'm sorry |
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about this, but it had to be done. |
about this, but it had to be done. |
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=head2 Order of substitution |
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This was never really documented, so here it is now: |
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=item fields |
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substitution of fields like C<v200^a> into values |
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=item lookups |
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next, lookups are performed (C<lookup{...}>) |
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=item format |
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then formats (defined by C<format_name=> and C<format_delimiter=>) are |
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applied. If formats have lookups, they will be performed again. |
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=head1 New features of version 2 |
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Here are new features which didn't exist in version 1. |
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=head2 Documentation |
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Code is well documented using C<pod>. |
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=head2 Baking as opposed to cooking your WebPAC |
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It's possible to create searchable WebPAC completely static, from HTML and |
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JavaScript, so you can burn it on CD-ROM. |
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This was original reason for writing version 2 in the first place. |
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=head2 Tree structures for data display |
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See L<WebPAC::Tree>. |
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