source: trunk/gsdl/perllib/docproc.pm@ 3177

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#
# docproc.pm --
# A component of the Greenstone digital library software
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# University of Waikato, New Zealand.
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# document processors are used by the document reader plugins
# to do some processing on some documents

package docproc;

sub new {
    my ($class) = @_;
    my $self = {};

    $self->{'OIDtype'} = "hash";

    return bless $self, $class;
}

sub process {
    my $self = shift (@_);
    my ($doc_obj) = @_;

    die "docproc::process function must be implemented in sub classes\n";
}

# OIDtype may be "hash" or "incremental"
sub set_OIDtype {
    my $self = shift (@_);
    my ($type) = @_;

    if ($type eq "incremental") {
    $self->{'OIDtype'} = $type;
    } else {
    $self->{'OIDtype'} = "hash";
    }
}


1;