The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Spellcheck
DSLIP: RmpOa
description: Spellcheck- a generic spellchecking module
userid: GCLASS (Gregory Class)
chapterid: 15 (World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI)
communities:
CVS, maillinglist
similar:
Text::Aspell, Lingua::Ispell
rationale:
Why I wrote it:
Roughly a year ago, I wrote an internal tool for our suite of tools
and used the Lingua::Ispell interface for spellchecking.
Unfortunately, the interface was not very clean and generated
several problems when I was using it in Modperl. Developers at my
work ended up contributing some fixes to that module but eventually
decided it didn't suit all of our needs. Additionally, I ended up
having to wrap the module with more code to make it work well for
checking text in webpages. As a result of these problems I had with
existing modules, I set out to write a newer simpler checker module.
Last summer I wrote that easier-to-use module. It works in modperl
and is very easy to integrate in tools. I even wrote an inherited
module that allows client classes to spellcheck form elements with
only one function call. The reason I wrote this module was because
there was no existing module that had a minimal or complete enough
interface to suit my Spellchecking needs.
Rationale for Namespace:
First of all, all this module is designed to do is Spellcheck. It's
not designed to be a wrapper for a specific type of command line
spellchecker or a specific type of input.
Secondly, the module is not bound to any one type of command line
checker because the method that interfaces an external spellchecker
is loosely coupled to the rest of the module. Changing a
configuration directive when the object is created could change the
command used to check the text.
Finally, I have written other inherited modules that are designed
to be used in specific types of documents, notably Text and HTML so
it makes sense for a usage for spellcheck to be Spellcheck::HTML or
Spellcheck::TEXT. It'd make sense to do new modules in the namespace
that spellcheck XML or POD, or whatever.
To sum things up, this spellchecker module is written to be
extended for different types of input, so it naturally should exist
as a new root namespace.
enteredby: GCLASS (Gregory Class)
enteredon: Mon Dec 2 19:40:26 2002 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Spellcheck RmpOa Spellcheck- a generic spellchecking module GCLASS
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