I've just sent off a new version of SVG::Metadata to CPAN. I've just done one change since 0.27:
* Added a to_hash() routine for getting metadata as a plain hash
The last official release was 0.25. The changes in 0.26 and 0.27 were done by Jonadab:
0.27 2005-07-22 Jonadab * Added try_harder() and adjusted parse() to support it. * Made retain_xml() a method, like strict_validation() and try_harder() For backward compatibility, it is still also settable as an option to parse() * When parse fails, it now returns undef in scalar context or an empty list in list context -- a false value either way. * The POD for subject() was not strictly accurate before and is now more accurate, because I changed parse() slightly to do part of what it says, and also elaborated on the POD to accurately reflect what to_rdf() does. * Added some comments and fleshed out some more POD while I was tinkering.
0.26 2005-07-20 Jonadab * Use XML::Twig methods instead of hash reference structure. This eliminates the HASH bug and makes to_svg() work better.
Bryce