afppowertools HOWTO

Roland Rodrigus

April 09, 2010


Table of Contents

Introduction
Donwload, Install, Bug Report
Prerequisites
Installation
Installing the AFP::PowerTools package
Problems and Bug Reporting
What is AFP
Working with afppowertools
Rule = condition + action
First Steps: a single rule
Basic utilities
afppowertools internals
Data Structures
Mappings
Use Case 1: dumping to and loading from YAML
Use case 2
Use Case 3: Towards a free Automated Document Factory
Acknowledgments

Introduction

afppowertools is a library and a set of utilities to parse and transform Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) files.