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README for ddc-perl

=head1 ABSTRACT

DDC::Concordance - Query and wrapper utilities for DDC concordance search engine

=head1 REQUIREMENTS

=over 4

=item IO::Socket::INET

=item NetServer::Generic

(for server wrapping)

=item Text::Wrap

=item Lingua::LTS

(for LTS wrapping, see 'grimm/lts/Lingua-LTS' directory in the DWDS CVS Repository)

=item a running DDC server

(for client connection)
Current sources for the DDC search engine should be available from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddc-concordance/ 

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=head1 DESCRIPTION

The ddc-perl package provides object-oriented wrappers for querying and/or wrapping
a DDC corpus index server.  Also included in the distribution are some example
scripts for querying a server, simple query expansion using an LTS transducer
and an indexed 'pho' field, as well as a drop-in wrapper for an underlying
DDC server which performs transparent query translation for an indexed
'pho' field.

=head2 Current Version

Current sources for this module should be available from CPAN ( http://metacpan.org/release/DDC-Concordance )
or via sourceforce ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddc-concordance/files/ddc-perl/ ).

=head1 KNOWN BUGS

=head2 Conflicting CPAN module names

Unforunately, the top-level DDC namespace conflicts with another module on CPAN,
namely Torsten Raudssus' "DDC" from the "Data-Coloured" distribution ( https://metacpan.org/pod/DDC ).
As a workaround to this problem, the top-level module for this package has been renamed
to 'DDC::Concordance' in ddc-perl v0.17.  For backwards-compatibility, this distribution also
contains a 'DDC.pm' which simply includes the new top-level 'DDC::Concordance' module.
Subclass names (e.g. DDC::Client) have not been changed.

=head1 AUTHOR

Bryan Jurish E<lt>moocow@cpan.orgE<gt>

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