oracular (3) Business::ISBN::Data.3pm.gz

Provided by: libbusiness-isbn-data-perl_20240807.001-1_all bug

NAME
       Business::ISBN::Data - data pack for Business::ISBN


SYNOPSIS
       see Business::ISBN


DESCRIPTION
       You don't need to load this module yourself in most cases. Business::ISBN will load it when it loads. You
       must use Business::ISBN 3.005 or later because the data structure changed slightly to fix a bug with
       ISBN13 prefixes.

       These data are generated from the RangeMessage.xml file provided by the ISBN Agency. The distributed
       version matches the date in the version for this module. You can retrieve this yourself at
       <https://www.isbn-international.org/range_file_generation>.  This file is included as part of the
       distribution and should be installed at ~lib/Business/ISBN/Data/RangeMessage.xml.

       If you want to use a different RangeMessage.xml file, you can set the "ISBN_RANGE_MESSAGE" environment
       variable to the alternate location before you load "Business::ISBN". This way, you can use the latest (or
       even earlier) data without having to install something new or wait for an update to this module.

       If the default RangeMessage.xml or your alternate one is not available, the module falls back to data
       included in Data.pm. However, that data are likely to be older. If it does not find that file, it looks
       for RangeMessage.xml in the current directory.

       The data are in %Business::ISBN::country_data (although the "country" part is historical). If you want to
       see where the data are from, check $Business::ISBN::country_data{_source}.

   Packaging this module
       The included RangeMessage.xml is in under lib/ at the same level as Data.pm. The same data exist as the
       default data in the code, so you don't need to pass along the distributed RangeMessage.xml.  However, you
       can include a newer RangeMessage.xml.

       With PAR, you can add extra files to the archive with "-a". Put the new file somewhere the module will
       find it (or use "ISBN_RANGE_MESSAGE" to lead it there):

               pp ... -a '..../RangeMessage.xml;RangeMessage.xml'

       If you put the RangeMessage.xml in the current working directory of the application, the module should
       find it.

   Updating the default data
       In the repo, find the examples/make_default_data.pl program. Run that against the latest
       RangeMessage.xml:

               % perl -Ilib examples/make_default_data.pl RangeMessage.xml

       That produces the code you need to replace in the module. Check that that data aren't weird: sometimes
       the group names have errors or oddities. The program handles escaping single quotes and trimming white
       space.


SOURCE AVAILABILITY
       This module lives in a Github repository:

               https://github.com/briandfoy/business-isbn-data

       You are probably also interested in the module that uses it:

               https://github.com/briandfoy/business-isbn

       If you have something to add, create a fork on Github and send a pull request.


AUTHOR
       brian d foy, "<briandfoy@pobox.com>"

       Yakov Shafranovich updated the data in October 2008.

       Daniel Jakubik updated the data in July 2012.

       Markus Spann suggested looking for RangeMessage.xml in the current directory to make it work with Perl
       app bundlers.

       Josef Moravec "<josef.moravec@gmail.com>" updated the data in January 2019.

       Peter Williams fixed a serious issue with ISBN-13 (GitHub #5). You must use Business::ISBN 3.005 or later
       because the data structure changed.


       Copyright © 2002-2024, brian d foy <briandfoy@pobox.com>. All rights reserved.

       You may redistribute this under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.