HTML::Parse(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTML::Parse(3pm)
NAME
HTML::Parse - Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder
VERSION
This document describes version 5.07 of HTML::Parse, released August
31, 2017 as part of HTML-Tree.
SYNOPSIS
See the documentation for HTML::TreeBuilder
DESCRIPTION
Disclaimer: This module is provided only for backwards compatibility
with earlier versions of this library. New code should not use this
module, and should really use the HTML::Parser and HTML::TreeBuilder
modules directly, instead.
The "HTML::Parse" module provides functions to parse HTML documents.
There are two functions exported by this module:
parse_html($html) or parse_html($html, $obj)
This function is really just a synonym for $obj->parse($html) and
$obj is assumed to be a subclass of "HTML::Parser". Refer to
HTML::Parser for more documentation.
If $obj is not specified, the $obj will default to an internally
created new "HTML::TreeBuilder" object configured with
strict_comment() turned on. That class implements a parser that
builds (and is) a HTML syntax tree with HTML::Element objects as
nodes.
The return value from parse_html() is $obj.
parse_htmlfile($file, [$obj])
Same as parse_html(), but pulls the HTML to parse, from the named
file.
Returns "undef" if the file could not be opened, or $obj otherwise.
When a "HTML::TreeBuilder" object is created, the following variables
control how parsing takes place:
$HTML::Parse::IMPLICIT_TAGS
Setting this variable to true will instruct the parser to try to
deduce implicit elements and implicit end tags. If this variable
is false you get a parse tree that just reflects the text as it
stands. Might be useful for quick & dirty parsing. Default is
true.
Implicit elements have the implicit() attribute set.
$HTML::Parse::IGNORE_UNKNOWN
This variable contols whether unknown tags should be represented as
elements in the parse tree. Default is true.
$HTML::Parse::IGNORE_TEXT
Do not represent the text content of elements. This saves space if
all you want is to examine the structure of the document. Default
is false.
$HTML::Parse::WARN
Call warn() with an appropriate message for syntax errors. Default
is false.
REMEMBER!
HTML::TreeBuilder objects should be explicitly destroyed when you're
finished with them. See HTML::TreeBuilder.
SEE ALSO
HTML::Parser, HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Element
AUTHOR
Current maintainers:
• Christopher J. Madsen "<perl AT cjmweb.net>"
• Jeff Fearn "<jfearn AT cpan.org>"
Original HTML-Tree author:
• Gisle Aas
Former maintainers:
• Sean M. Burke
• Andy Lester
• Pete Krawczyk "<petek AT cpan.org>"
You can follow or contribute to HTML-Tree's development at
<https://github.com/kentfredric/HTML-Tree>.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas, 1999-2004 Sean M. Burke, 2005 Andy
Lester, 2006 Pete Krawczyk, 2010 Jeff Fearn, 2012 Christopher J.
Madsen.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
The programs in this library are distributed in the hope that they will
be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty
of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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