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- <H1><A NAME="name">NAME</A></H1>
- <P>WWW::Search::Excite::News - class for searching ExciteNews</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="supportedplatforms">SUPPORTED PLATFORMS</A></H1>
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- <LI>Linux</LI>
- <LI>Solaris</LI>
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- <H1><A NAME="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</A></H1>
- <P>require WWW::Search;
- $search = new WWW::Search('Excite::News');</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="description">DESCRIPTION</A></H1>
- <P>Class for searching Excite News <EM><A HREF="http://www.excite.com">http://www.excite.com</A></EM>.
- Excite has one of the best news bot on the web.</P>
- <P>If you use the raw method for this backend you will need to include
- a ``<p>'' at end of your print statement, example:
- print $result->raw(), ``<p>\n'';</P>
- <P>This class exports no public interface; all interaction should
- be done through WWW::Search objects.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="see also">SEE ALSO</A></H1>
- <P>To make new back-ends, see <A HREF="../../../../../site/lib/WWW/Search.html">the WWW::Search manpage</A>.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="how does it work">HOW DOES IT WORK?</A></H1>
- <P><CODE>native_setup_search</CODE> is called before we do anything.
- It initializes our private variables (which all begin with underscores)
- and sets up a URL to the first results page in <CODE>{_next_url}</CODE>.
- </P>
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- C<native_retrieve_some> is called (from C<WWW::Search::retrieve_some>)
- whenever more hits are needed. It calls the LWP library
- to fetch the page specified by C<{_next_url}>.
- It parses this page, appending any search hits it finds to
- C<{cache}>. If it finds a ``next'' button in the text,
- it sets C<{_next_url}> to point to the page for the next
- set of results, otherwise it sets it to undef to indicate we are done.</PRE>
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- <H1><A NAME="author">AUTHOR</A></H1>
- <P>Maintained by Jim Smyser <<A HREF="mailto:jsmyser@bigfoot.com">jsmyser@bigfoot.com</A>></P>
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- <H1><A NAME="testing">TESTING</A></H1>
- <P>This module adheres to the <CODE>WWW::Search</CODE> test suite mechanism.
- See $TEST_CASES below.</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="version history">VERSION HISTORY</A></H1>
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- <H2><A NAME="2.02, 1999105">2.02, 1999-10-5</A></H2>
- <P>Misc. formatting changes</P>
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- <H2><A NAME="2.01, 19990713">2.01, 1999-07-13</A></H2>
- <P>New test mechanism</P>
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- <H1><A NAME="copyright">COPYRIGHT</A></H1>
- <P>The original parts from John Heidemann are subject to
- following copyright notice:</P>
- <P>Copyright (c) 1996-1998 University of Southern California.
- All rights reserved.
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