HTML::HeadParser(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTML::HeadParser(3)NAMEHTML::HeadParser - Parse <HEAD> section of a HTML document
SYNOPSIS
require HTML::HeadParser;
$p = HTML::HeadParser->new;
$p->parse($text) and print "not finished";
$p->header('Title') # to access <title>....</title>
$p->header('Content-Base') # to access <base href="http://...">
$p->header('Foo') # to access <meta http-equiv="Foo" content="...">
DESCRIPTION
The "HTML::HeadParser" is a specialized (and lightweight)
"HTML::Parser" that will only parse the <HEAD>...</HEAD> section of an
HTML document. The parse() method will return a FALSE value as soon as
some <BODY> element or body text are found, and should not be called
again after this.
Note that the "HTML::HeadParser" might get confused if raw undecoded
UTF-8 is passed to the parse() method. Make sure the strings are prop‐
erly decoded before passing them on.
The "HTML::HeadParser" keeps a reference to a header object, and the
parser will update this header object as the various elements of the
<HEAD> section of the HTML document are recognized. The following
header fields are affected:
Content-Base:
The Content-Base header is initialized from the <base href="...">
element.
Title:
The Title header is initialized from the <title>...</title> ele‐
ment.
Isindex:
The Isindex header will be added if there is a <isindex> element in
the <head>. The header value is initialized from the prompt
attribute if it is present. If no prompt attribute is given it
will have '?' as the value.
X-Meta-Foo:
All <meta> elements will initialize headers with the prefix
""X-Meta-"" on the name. If the <meta> element contains a
"http-equiv" attribute, then it will be honored as the header name.
METHODS
The following methods (in addition to those provided by the superclass)
are available:
$hp = HTML::HeadParser->new
$hp = HTML::HeadParser->new( $header )
The object constructor. The optional $header argument should be a
reference to an object that implement the header() and
push_header() methods as defined by the "HTTP::Headers" class.
Normally it will be of some class that isa or delegates to the
"HTTP::Headers" class.
If no $header is given "HTML::HeadParser" will create an
"HTTP::Header" object by itself (initially empty).
$hp->header;
Returns a reference to the header object.
$hp->header( $key )
Returns a header value. It is just a shorter way to write
"$hp->header->header($key)".
EXAMPLE
$h = HTTP::Headers->new;
$p = HTML::HeadParser->new($h);
$p->parse(<<EOT);
<title>Stupid example</title>
<base href="http://www.linpro.no/lwp/">
Normal text starts here.
EOT
undef $p;
print $h->title; # should print "Stupid example"
SEE ALSO
HTML::Parser, HTTP::Headers
The "HTTP::Headers" class is distributed as part of the libwww-perl
package. If you don't have that distribution installed you need to
provide the $header argument to the "HTML::HeadParser" constructor with
your own object that implements the documented protocol.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1996-2001 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.8.8 2006-04-26 HTML::HeadParser(3)
