HTML::Parse - Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder
This is a development release for testing purposes only. This document describes version 5.909 of HTML::Parse, released May 24, 2014 as part of HTML-Tree.
See the documentation for HTML::TreeBuilder
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:
HTML::Parse
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.
HTML::Parser
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.
HTML::TreeBuilder
The return value from parse_html() is $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.
undef
When a HTML::TreeBuilder object is created, the following variables control how parsing takes place:
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.
This variable controls whether unknown tags should be represented as elements in the parse tree. Default is true.
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.
Call warn() with an appropriate message for syntax errors. Default is false.
HTML::TreeBuilder objects should be explicitly destroyed when you're finished with them. See HTML::TreeBuilder.
HTML::Parser, HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Element
Current maintainers:
Christopher J. Madsen <perl AT cjmweb.net>
<perl AT cjmweb.net>
Jeff Fearn <jfearn AT cpan.org>
<jfearn AT cpan.org>
Original HTML-Tree author:
Gisle Aas
Former maintainers:
Sean M. Burke
Andy Lester
Pete Krawczyk <petek AT cpan.org>
<petek AT cpan.org>
You can follow or contribute to HTML-Tree's development at https://github.com/madsen/HTML-Tree.
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.
To install HTML::Tree, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm HTML::Tree
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HTML::Tree
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.