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NAME
    DISCO - DISCO client interface

SYNOPSIS
     use DISCO;

     my $disco = DISCO->new(URI => 'http://');
     print 'ref: ' . $disco->get_ref . "\n";
     print 'docRef: ' . $disco->get_docRef . "\n";
     print 'address: ' . $disco->get_address;

DESCRIPTION
    This module provide functions to interpret DISCO. DISCO (short for
    Discovery) is a pseudo-standard by Microsoft. A published .disco file,
    which is an XML document that contains links to other resources that
    describe the XML Web service, enables programmatic discovery of an XML
    Web service. More information at
    *msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconwebservicediscovery.
    asp*.

    The interface exposed provides access to the ref, docRef and address
    attributes of a DISCO file.

FUNCTIONS
    The following functions are provided. All are exported by default. All
    the get_xxx() return the value of the xxx attribute in the provided XML.
    The constructor expects the URI of the DISCO file in the URI parameter.

    get_ref()
        This function returns the value of the ref element in the DISCO
        file.

    get_docRef()
        This function returns the value of the docRef element in the DISCO
        file.

    get_address()
        This function returns the value of the address element in the DISCO
        file.

GLOBALS
  $URI
    The URI of the DISCO file.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    Does not understand (yet) multiple entries in the DISCO file
    Does not support (yet) local DISCO files
    Limited support for auto-generated DISCO files by Visual Studio .NET
    Automatic generation of WSDL proxies (using SOAP::Lite) not yet
    implemented

SEE ALSO
    DISCO reqires use XML::Simple and LWP::UserAgent.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconwebservicedisc
    overy.asp

AUTHOR
    Christian Wenz <wenz@cpan.org>

    Copyright 2004 Christian Wenz -- http://www.hauser-wenz.de/

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself.