HTML::Parse - Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder

- NAME
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- REMEMBER!
- SEE ALSO
- COPYRIGHT
- AUTHOR

# NAME

HTML::Parse - Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder

# SYNOPSIS

      See the documentation for HTML::TreeBuilder

# DESCRIPTION

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:

`parse_html($html)` or parse_html($html, $obj)
  This function is really just a synonym for $obj->`parse($html)` and $obj is assumed to be a subclass of `HTML::Parser`. Refer to the HTML::Parser manpage for more documentation.

  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.

  The return value from `parse_html()` is $obj.

parse_htmlfile($file, [$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.

When a `HTML::TreeBuilder` object is created, the following variables control how parsing takes place:

$HTML::Parse::IMPLICIT_TAGS
  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.

$HTML::Parse::IGNORE_UNKNOWN
  This variable contols whether unknow tags should be represented as elements in the parse tree. Default is true.

$HTML::Parse::IGNORE_TEXT
  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.

$HTML::Parse::WARN
  Call `warn()` with an apropriate message for syntax errors. Default is false.

# REMEMBER!

HTML::TreeBuilder objects should be explicitly destroyed when you're finished with them. See the HTML::TreeBuilder manpage.

# SEE ALSO

the HTML::Parser manpage, the HTML::TreeBuilder manpage, the HTML::Element manpage

# COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1995-1998 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.

# AUTHOR

Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>. Current maintainer Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

HTML::Parse - Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder