HTML::Parse - Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder
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 contols whether unknow 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 apropriate 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
Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas, 1999-2004 Sean M. Burke, 2005 Andy Lester, 2006 Pete Krawczyk.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Original HTML-Tree author: Gisle Aas.
Former Authors: Sean M. Burke. Andy Lester. Pete Krawczyk <petek@cpan.org>.
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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.