OVERVIEW
The HTML-Parser distribution is is a collection of modules that parse
and extract information from HTML documents. The modules present in
this collection are:
HTML::Parser - The parser base class. It receives arbitrary sized
chunks of the HTML text, recognizes markup elements, and
separates them from the plain text. As different kinds of markup
and text are recognized, the corresponding event handlers are
invoked.
HTML::Entities - Provides functions to encode and decode text with
embedded HTML <entities>.
HTML::HeadParser - A lightweight HTML::Parser subclass that extracts
information from the <HEAD> section of an HTML document.
HTML::LinkExtor - An HTML::Parser subclass that extracts links from
an HTML document.
HTML::PullParser - An alternative interface to the basic parser
that does not require event driven programming.
HTML::TokeParser - An HTML::PullParser subclass with fixed
token setup and methods for extracting text. Many simple
parsing needs are probably best attacked with this module.
In addition take a look at the HTML-Tree package that build on
HTML::Parser to create and extract information from HTML syntax trees
(similar to HTML DOM).
PREREQUISITES
In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version
5.8 or better. The HTML::Tagset module should be installed.
If you intend to use the HTML::HeadParser you probably want to install
libwww-perl too.
INSTALLATION
Just follow the usual procedure:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
REPORTING BUGS
Bug reports and issues for discussion about these modules can be sent
to the <libwww@perl.org> mailing list.
COPYRIGHT
© 1995-2016 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
© 1999-2000 Michael A. Chase. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.