NAME

       OpenOffice::OODoc::Manifest - Access to document file descriptor

DESCRIPTION

       The OpenOffice::OODoc::manifest class is a specialist derivative of
       OpenOffice::OODoc::XPath allowing access to the content descriptor of an OpenDocument or
       OpenOffice.org file.

       For ordinary content processing applications, it's not absolutely necessary to control the
       manifest. Member imports or deletions (ex: createImageElement() in
       OpenOffice::OODoc::Image, raw_delete() in OpenOffice::OODoc::File) may make the real
       content inconsistent with the manifest. Up to now, the OpenOffice.org desktop suite don't
       worry about that. However, OpenOffice::OODoc::Manifest provides a few number of easy to
       use methods to get or set any entry in the manifest. In addition, it allows the users (at
       their own risks) to create or update any kind of special entry or mime type, without
       control. There is no automatic consistency check between the manifest and the real content
       (but this check and others could be easily developed with the combination of this module
       and the other ones).

       The manifest (i.e. the "META-INF/manifest.xml" part of an ODF package) is a special member
       that describes the MIME types and the full internal paths of the other members.

   Methods
       Constructor : OpenOffice::OODoc::Manifest->new(<parameters>)

               Short Form: odfManifest(<parameters>)

               See OpenOffice::OODoc::XPath->new

               The XML member loaded by default is 'META-INF/manifest.xml'.

               Example:

                   $my manifest = OpenOffice::OODoc::Manifest>new
                                       (
                                       file    => 'document.odt'
                                       );

               returns a new object which represents the member list of an
               ODF-compliant "document.odt" file.

       getEntry($entry)

               Returns the element (if any) corresponding to the given member.

               Example:

                       my $element = $manifest->getEntry("content.xml");

               Returns the element describing the "content.xml" member of the
               file, if this element is defined.

       getMainType()

               Returns the main MIME type of the document.
               For example, this type is

                       "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text"

               for an OpenDocument text file or

                       "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation"

               for an OpenDocument presentation, or

                       "application/vnd.sun.xml.writer"

               for an OpenOffice.org 1.0 text file, etc.

               See the Appendix C in the OASIS OpenDocument 1.0 specification
               for a complete list of OpenDocument-compliant MIME types.

       getType($entry)

               Returns the media (mime) type of the given member.

       removeEntry($entry)

               Deletes the named entry.

       setEntry($entry, $type)

               Sets the mime type of an entry element. If the element was not
               previously existing, it's created.
               Returns the new element in case of success, undef otherwise.

               Example:

                       my $element = $manifest->setEntry
                                               ("content.xml", "text/xml");

               This instruction first creates (if needed) an entry for the member
               "content.xml" and sets its media type to "text/xml".

       setMainEntry($type)

               Sets the main MIME type of the document.
               Risky; not for ordinary use. But nobody prevents you from giving
               a presentation or spreadsheet MIME type to a Writer document !

   Properties
               As for OpenOffice::OODoc::XPath

   Exported functions
               None

NOTES

       See OpenOffice::OODoc::Notes(3) for the footnote citations ([n]) included in this page.

AUTHOR/COPYRIGHT

       Developer/Maintainer: Jean-Marie Gouarne <http://jean.marie.gouarne.online.fr>

       Contact: jmgdoc@cpan.org

       Copyright 2004-2008 by Genicorp, S.A. <http://www.genicorp.com>

       Initial English version of the reference manual by Graeme A. Hunter
       (graeme.hunter@zen.co.uk).

       License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1