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.IX Title "Metacat 3pm"
.TH Metacat 3pm "2020-08-25" "perl v5.26.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Metacat \- Perl extension for communicating with the Metacat XML database
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\&  use Metacat;
\&  my $metacat = Metacat\->new();
\&  my $response = $metacat\->login($username, $password); 
\&  print $metacat\->getMessage();
\&  $response = $metacat\->insert($docid, $xmldoc); 
\&  print $metacat\->getMessage();
\&  $response = $metacat\->insert($docid, $xmldoc, $dtd); 
\&  print $metacat\->getMessage();
\&  $response = $metacat\->update($docid, $xmldoc); 
\&  print $metacat\->getMessage();
\&  $response = $metacat\->upload($docid, $data); 
\&  print $metacat\->getMessage();
\&  $htmlResponse = $metacat\->read($docid); 
\&  $xmldoc = $htmlResponse\->content();
\&  print $xmldoc;
\&  $resultset = $metacat\->squery($pathquery); 
\&  print $resultset;
\&  $response = $metacat\->delete($docid); 
\&  $response = $metacat\->setaccess($docid,$principal,$permission,$permType,$permOrder); 
\&  my $lastid = $metacat\->getLastId("obfs");
\&  print $metacat\->getMessage();
\&  $response = $metacat\->getCookies(); 
\&  print $metacat\->getMessage();
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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This is a client library for accessing the Metacat \s-1XML\s0 database.  Metacat
is a Java servlet that accepts commands over \s-1HTTP\s0 and returns \s-1XML\s0 and
\&\s-1HTML\s0 responses.  See http://knb.ecoinformatics.org for details about
Metacat and its interface.
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None by default.
.SH "AUTHOR"
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Matthew B. Jones, jones@nceas.ucsb.edu
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\&\fIperl\fR\|(1).