The CGI::pWiki class is implementating the WikiWikiWeb idea of a user elaboratable database written in Perl and published at CPAN. Goal of CGI::pWiki is to provide a framework to enable large groups of authors to contribute content to a website. The CGI::pWiki acts as an Apache-Handler translating content from WikiWikiWeb to HTML adding style templates, if wanted. The CGI::pWiki knows about some additional file formats besides Wiki. So one can use text/plain, text/html text/pod and text/xml, also. Normal users will only generate GET events with browsing and searching, while authors generate POST events for editing and saving. So simple htaccess files could be used to restrict authorship of directories. (c) 2002 GPL Michael Koehne