HTML::Formatter - Base class for HTML formatters |
HTML::Formatter - Base class for HTML formatters
version 2.11
use HTML::FormatSomething; my $infile = "whatever.html"; my $outfile = "whatever.file"; open OUT, ">$outfile" or die "Can't write-open $outfile: $!\n";
print OUT HTML::FormatSomething->format_file( $infile, 'option1' => 'value1', 'option2' => 'value2', ... ); close(OUT);
HTML::Formatter is a base class for classes that take HTML and format it to
some output format. When you take an object of such a base class and call
$formatter-
format( $tree )> with an the HTML::TreeBuilder manpage (or
the HTML::Element manpage) object, they return the appropriately formatted string for
the input HTML.
HTML formatters are able to format a HTML syntax tree into various printable
formats. Different formatters produce output for different output media.
Common for all formatters are that they will return the formatted output when
the format()
method is called. The format()
method takes a HTML::Element
object (usually the HTML::TreeBuilder root object) as parameter.
my $formatter = FormatterClass->new( option1 => value1, option2 => value2, ... );
This creates a new formatter object with the given options.
$string = FormatterClass->format_file( $html_source, option1 => value1, option2 => value2, ... );
Return a string consisting of the result of using the given class to format the
given HTML file according to the given (optional) options. Internally it calls
SomeClass->new( ... )->format( ... )
on a new HTML::TreeBuilder object
based on the given HTML file.
$string = FormatterClass->format_string( $html_source, option1 => value1, option2 => value2, ... );
Return a string consisting of the result of using the given class to format the
given HTML source according to the given (optional) options. Internally it
calls SomeClass->new( ... )->format( ... )
on a new HTML::TreeBuilder
object based on the given source.
my $render_string = $formatter->format( $html_tree_object );
This renders the given HTML object according to the options set for $formatter.
After you've used a particular formatter object to format a particular HTML tree object, you probably should not use either again.
The three specific formatters:-
Also the HTML manipulation libraries used - the HTML::TreeBuilder manpage, the HTML::Element manpage and the HTML::Tree manpage
See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.
You can make new bug reports, and view existing ones, through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html.
The project homepage is https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Format.
The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a CPAN site near you, or see https://metacpan.org/module/HTML::Format/.
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002-2005 Sean M Burke, 1999-2002 Gisle Aas.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
HTML::Formatter - Base class for HTML formatters |