NAME

Parse::ACNS - parser for Automated Copyright Notice System (ACNS) XML

SYNOPSIS

    use Parse::ACNS;
    my $data = Parse::ACNS->new->parse( XML::LibXML->load_xml( string => $xml ) );

DESCRIPTION

ACNS stands for Automated Copyright Notice System. It's an open source, royalty free system that universities, ISP's, or anyone that handles large volumes of copyright notices can implement on their network to increase the efficiency and reduce the costs of responding to the notices... See "http://mpto.unistudios.com/xml/" for more details.

This module parses ACNS XML into a perl data structure. Supports both 0.6 and 0.7 version. Parser strictly follows XML Schemas, so throws errors on malformed data.

However, it doesn't extract ACNS XML from email messages.

METHODS

new

Constructor, takes list of named arguments.

version - version of the specification

compat - default value, can parse both 0.7 and 0.6 XML by making TimeStamp element in Infringement/Content/Item optional. This is the only difference between the spec versions.

0.7 or 0.6 - strict parsing of the specified version.

parse

    my $data = Parse::ACNS->new->parse( XML::LibXML->load_xml(...) );

Takes XML::LibXML::Document containing an ACNS XML and returns it as a perl struture. Read XML::LibXML::Parser on parsing from different sources.

Returned data structure follows XML and its Schema, for example:

    {
        'Case' => {
            'ID' => 'A1234567',
            'Status' => ...,
            ...
        },
        'Complainant' => {
            'Email' => 'antipiracy@contentowner.com',
            'Phone' => ...,
            ...
        },
        'Source' => {
            'TimeStamp' => '2003-08-30T12:34:53Z',
            'UserName' => 'guest',
            'Login' => { ... },
            'IP_Address' => ...,
            ...
        }
        'Service_Provider' => { ... }
        'Content' => {
            'Item' => [
                {
                    'TimeStamp' => '2003-08-30T12:34:53Z',
                    'FileName' => '8Mile.mpg',
                    'Hash' => {
                            'Type' => 'SHA1',
                            '_' => 'EKR94KF985873KD930ER4KD94'
                          },
                    ...
                },
                { ... },
                ...
            ]
        },
        'History' => {
            'Notice' => [
                {
                    'ID' => '12321',
                    'TimeStamp' => '2003-08-30T10:23:13Z',
                    '_' => 'freeform text area'
                },
                { ... },
                ...
            ]
        },
        'Notes' => '
            Open area for freeform text notes, filelists, etc...
        '
    }

AUTHOR

Ruslan Zakirov <ruz@bestpractical.com>

LICENSE

Under the same terms as perl itself.