HTML::Tree(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation HTML::Tree(3)NAMEHTML::Tree - overview of HTML::TreeBuilder et al
VERSION
3.23
SYNOPSIS
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
$tree->parse_file($filename);
# Then do something with the tree, using HTML::Element
# methods -- for example:
$tree->dump
# Finally:
$tree->delete;
DESCRIPTION
HTML-Tree is a suite of Perl modules for making parse trees out of HTML
source. It consists of mainly two modules, whose documentation you
should refer to: HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::Element.
HTML::TreeBuilder is the module that builds the parse trees. (It uses
HTML::Parser to do the work of breaking the HTML up into tokens.)
The tree that TreeBuilder builds for you is made up of objects of the
class HTML::Element.
If you find that you do not properly understand the documentation for
HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::Element, it may be because you are unfamil‐
iar with tree-shaped data structures, or with object-oriented modules
in general. Sean Burke has written some articles for The Perl Journal
("www.tpj.com") that seek to provide that background. The full text of
those articles is contained in this distribution, as:
HTML::Tree::AboutObjects
"User's View of Object-Oriented Modules" from TPJ17.
HTML::Tree::AboutTrees
"Trees" from TPJ18
HTML::Tree::Scanning
"Scanning HTML" from TPJ19
Readers already familiar with object-oriented modules and tree-shaped
data structures should read just the last article. Readers without
that background should read the first, then the second, and then the
third.
SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc HTML::Tree
You can also look for information at:
* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
<http://annocpan.org/dist/HTML-Tree>
* CPAN Ratings
<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/HTML-Tree>
* RT: CPAN's request tracker
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=HTML-Tree>
* Search CPAN
<http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Tree>
SEE ALSO
HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Element, HTML::Tagset, HTML::Parser,
HTML::DOMbo
The book Perl & LWP by Sean M. Burke published by O'Reilly and Asso‐
ciates, 2002. ISBN: 0-596-00178-9
It has several chapters to do with HTML processing in general, and
HTML-Tree specifically. There's more info at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001789
SOURCE REPOSITORYHTML::Tree is maintained in Subversion hosted at perl.org.
http://svn.perl.org/modules/HTML-Tree
The latest development work is always at:
http://svn.perl.org/modules/HTML-Tree/trunk
Any patches sent should be diffed against this repository.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Gisle Aas, Sean Burke and Andy Lester for their original
work.
Thanks to Chicago Perl Mongers (http://chicago.pm.org) for their
patches submitted to HTML::Tree as part of the Phalanx project
(http://qa.perl.org/phalanx).
Thanks to the following people for additional patches and documenta‐
tion: Terrence Brannon, Gordon Lack, Chris Madsen and Ricardo Signes.
AUTHOR
Original HTML-Tree author Gisle Aas. Handed off to Sean M. Burke. and
Andy Lester. Currently maintained by Pete Krawczyk "<petek@cpan.org>".
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas; 1999-2004 Sean M. Burke; 2005 Andy
Lester; 2006 Pete Krawczyk. (Except the articles contained in
HTML::Tree::AboutObjects, HTML::Tree::AboutTrees, and HTML::Tree::Scan‐
ning, which are all copyright 2000 The Perl Journal.)
Except for those three TPJ articles, the whole HTML-Tree distribution,
of which this file is a part, is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Those three TPJ articles may be distributed 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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