GO::Parsers::ncbi_taxonomy_parser 

  do not use this class directly; use GO::Parser

See ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/taxonomy/taxonomy.dat

This generates Stag event streams from one of the various GO flat file formats (ontology, defs, xref, associations). See GO::Parser for details

Examples of these files can be found at http://www.geneontology.org

A description of the event streams generated follows; Stag or an XML handler can be used to catch these events