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 Biblio::Thesaurus version 0.24
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Perl extension for managing ISO thesaurus


ABSTRACT

This module provides transparent methods to maintain Thesaurus files.
The module uses a subset from ISO 2788 which defines some standard
features to be found on thesaurus files. The module also supports
multilingual thesaurus and some extensions to the ISOs standard.


INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

    perl Makefile.PL

lib/Biblio/Thesaurus.pm  view on Meta::CPAN

  $obj->appendThesaurus($tobj);

  $obj->tc('term', 'relation1', 'relation2');
  $obj->depth_first('term', 2, "NT", "UF")

  $latex = $obj->toTex( ...)
  $xml   = $obj->toXml( ...)

=head1 ABSTRACT

This module provides transparent methods to maintain Thesaurus files.
The module uses a subset from ISO 2788 which defines some standard
features to be found on thesaurus files. The module also supports
multilingual thesaurus and some extensions to the ISOs standard.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

A Thesaurus is a classification structure. We can see it as a graph
where nodes are terms and the vertices are relations between terms.

This module provides transparent methods to maintain Thesaurus files.
The module uses a subset from ISO 2788 which defines some standard
features to be found on thesaurus files. This ISO includes a set of
relations that can be seen as standard but, this program can use user
defined ones.  So, it can be used on ISO or not ISO thesaurus files.

=head1 File Structure

Thesaurus used with this module are standard ASCII documents. This
file can contain processing instructions, comments or term
definitions. The instructions area is used to define new relations and