Kite - collection of modules useful in Kite design and construction.

    use Kite;

    my $profile = Kite->profile(...)
	|| die $Kite::ERROR;

    my $xml2ps = Kite->xml2ps(...)
        || die $Kite::ERROR;

    my $xml_parser = Kite->xml_parser(...)
        || die $Kite::ERROR;

The Kite::* modules are a collection of Perl modules and scripts written to help with various tasks in the design and construction of traction kites.

The Kite module acts as a general interface to the other modules in the collection, providing factory methods for loading and instantiating them.

Loads the Kite::Profile module and calls the new() constructor. All parameters are forwarded to the constructor.

This example:

    use Kite;

    my $profile = Kite->profile( name => 'My Profile', ... )
        || die $Kite::ERROR, "\n";

is equivalent to:

    use Kite::Profile;

    my $profile = Kite::Profile->new( name => 'My Profile', ... )
        || die $Kite::Profile::ERROR, "\n";

Loads the Kite::XML2PS module and calls the new() constructor. All parameters are forwarded to the constructor as per the previous example.

Loads the Kite::XML::Parser module and calls the new() constructor. All parameters are forwarded to the constructor as per the previous examples.

The following modules are distributed with the Kite bundle.

Front-end for the Kite::* modules. Contains factory methods for loading modules and instantiating objects of other Kite::* classes.

Base class implementing common functionality such as error reporting.

Module defining an object class used to represent and manipulate 2D profiles.

Module to convert a curve definition from OpenKite XML format to PostScript. Provides automatic page tiling, path following text, registration marks, etc.

Module for parsing an XML file and generating a representative tree of node (element) objects.

Base class for XML element nodes created by Kite::XML::Parser.

Derived node elements specific to Kite markup (e.g. Kite, Part, Outline, Curve, Point, etc.)

Module defining a number of PostScript definitions useful for generating PostScript documents for kite part layout, etc.

The following scripts are distributed with the Kite bundle.

Utility script providing a user interface to the Kite::Profile module. Allows 2D profiles to be loaded and manipulated via simple commands. See 'perldoc okprof' or 'okprof -h'.

Utility script for converting XML kite part definition and layout markup to PostScript. Uses the Kite::XML2PS module.

Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org> is the primary author and current maintainer of the Kite::* bundle.

Simon Stapleton <simon@tufty.co.uk> is another key contributor.

This is version 0.4 of the Kite bundle.

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

See also Kite::Profile, Kite::XML2PS, Kite::XML::Parser, Kite::XML::Node, Kite::XML::Node::Kite, Kite::PScript::Defs, Kite::Base, okprof and okxml2ps.