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NAME
    HTML::HTML5::Builder - erect some scaffolding for your documents

SYNOPSIS
      use HTML::HTML5::Builder qw[:standard JQUERY];

      open my $fh, '<', 'inline-script.js';
  
      print html(
        -lang => 'en',
        head(
          title('Test'),
          Meta(-charset => 'utf-8'),
        ),
        body(
          h1('Test'),
          p('This is a test.'),
          JQUERY(-version => '1.6.4'),
          script(-type => 'text/javascript', $fh),
        ),
      );

DESCRIPTION
    This module can export function names corresponding to any HTML5
    element.

    Each function returns an XML::LibXML::Element with the same name as the
    function. The arguments to each function are processed as a list, and
    used to set the attributes and contents of that element.

    For each item on the list:

    *   if it's an XML::LibXML::Element, XML::LibXML::TextNode,
        XML::LibXML::Comment, or XML::LibXML::PI, it's appended as a child
        of the returned element.

    *   if it's an XML::LibXML::NodeList, each item on the list is appended
        as a child of the returned element.

    *   if it's an XML::LibXML::Attr, it's set as an attribute on the
        returned element

    *   if it's an IO::Handle, then it will be slurped and appended to the
        returned element as a text node.

    *   if it's a scalar reference, then the returned element is also
        assigned to it. (This feature is at risk.)

    *   if it's a scalar (string) some guesswork is conducted to figure out
        whether you're setting an attribute and value, or whether the string
        should be used as a text node. The presence of a hyphen at the start
        of the string is the main deciding factor.

          p('-class', 'warning', '$LordLucan not found.');

        In this example, a paragraph element is returned, with the class
        attribute set to 'warning' and the textual contents '$LordLucan not
        found.'.

        Sometimes it's necessary to protect values against this guesswork.
        By passing a hashref, all the keys and values are interpreted as
        setting attributes; by passing an arrayref, all values are
        interpreted as setting the contents of the element.

          p(['-class'], { warning => '$LordLucan not found.' });

        In this example, a paragraph element is returned, with the warning
        attribute set to '$LordLucan not found.' and the textual contents
        '-class'.

    *   Anything else is stringified and added as a text node. This is
        useful for things with sensible stringification defined, such as
        "DateTime" and "URI" objects, but less so for some other objects, so
        you will sometimes get a warning if warnings are enabled. Warnings
        can be disabled using:

          no warnings 'HTML::HTML::Builder';

  Exceptional Cases
    The "html" function does not return an "XML::LibXML::Element", but
    rather a "HTML::HTML5::Builder::Document" object.

    There is special handling for "time" (or "Time"). If the first parameter
    passed to it is a DateTime object, then that object is used to set its
    datetime attribute. If there are no subsequent parameters, then the
    stringified form of the object is also used to form the content of the
    <time> element.

    Note that the functions that generate <meta>, <link>, <q>, <time>,
    <sub>, <s> and <map> HTML elements are named "Meta()", "Link()", "Q()",
    "Time()", "Sub()", "S()" and "Map()" respectively, with an upper-case
    first letter. This is because each of these names corresponds to a
    built-in perl keyword (except meta, which is used by Moose). The
    lower-case versions of these do exist, and can be exported if you ask
    for them explicitly. The lower-case versions are also available as
    methods using the object-oriented syntax. (In fact, lower case and
    ucfirst versions exist for all HTML elements - they're just not always
    exportable.)

  General Purpose Functions
    "ELEMENT($tagname, @arguments)"
        If you need to insert an element which doesn't have its own
        function.

    "TEXT($string)"
        Produces a text node.

    "COMMENT($string)"
        Produces an HTML comment.

    "CHUNK($string)"
        Parses the string as HTML, and produces a list of elements, text
        nodes and comments.

        This should be a so-called "balanced chunk". Due to limitations in
        HTML::HTML5::Parser, this only works for body content. Croaks if
        HTML::HTML5::Parser is not installed.

    "XML_CHUNK($string)"
        More useful version of "CHUNK", without the restriction on content,
        but input needs to be a balanced and well-formed XML chunk.

    "RAW_CHUNK($string)"
        This allows you to include stuff that isn't anything close to valid
        HTML into the output document, such as a PHP block. e.g.

          html(
            head(
              title('Funny test'),
              ),
            body(
              h1('Funny test'),
              RAW_CHUNK("<p>Here's a fish: <=><"),
              ),
            );

        A processing instruction is used to represent this data in the DOM.
        HTML::HTML5::Writer can detect that processing instruction and use
        it to output the raw data. If you're not using HTML::HTML5::Writer
        to serialise the document, then you may need to post-process the
        serialised document.

        With great power comes great responsibility.

  Boiler-Plate Functions
    There are also a number of functions that create lists of multiple HTML
    elements, for boiler-plate code.

    "JQUERY(-version => $ver, %options)"
        Link to jQuery at a CDN.

        Other options include -source, to indicate where to link to jQuery
        (currently allowed values are "Google", "Microsoft" and "official");
        and -min, a boolean which indicates whether the minified version
        should be linked to (true by default).

        Setting option -ui to true, also includes jQuery UI. A version
        number can be indicated using -ui_version. A theme can be included
        setting -theme. Setting either -ui_version or -theme will imply -ui.

          JQUERY(
            -source     => 'official',
            -version    => '1.6.4',
            -ui_version => '1.8.16',
            -theme      => 'eggplant',
            );

        If versions aren't provided, defaults to the latest versions of the
        libraries that the author of HTML::HTML5::Builder was aware of at
        the time of publication. If you choose a version which is known to
        be unavailable at the selected CDN, the function should
        automatically choose a slightly later version.

    "CREATIVE_COMMONS($licence)"
    "CREATIVE_COMMONS(-licence => $licence, %options)"
        $licence can be one of 'by', 'by-nd', 'by-nc', 'by-sa', 'by-sa-nc',
        or 'by-sa-nd'.

        Other options supported are:

        *   -url - URL of the thing being licensed (if not the page itself)

        *   -size - 'large' or 'small' for the image

        *   -title - title of the work

        *   -attributionName - name people should use for attribution

        *   -attributionURL - link people should use for attribution

    "OPENGRAPH(%data)"
        Returns a list of <meta> elements providing Open Graph Protocol data
        for your page.

          OPENGRAPH(
            -title       => "Hello World",
            -type        => "example",
            -description => "A global greeting.",
            );

  Exporting Functions
    None by default. Pretty much anything can be exported on request.

    Export tags:

    *   ":all" - everything

    *   ":standard" - elements that are not obsolete in HTML5, plus ELEMENT,
        TEXT, COMMENT, CHUNK, XML_CHUNK and RAW_CHUNK

    *   ":metadata" - head title base Link Meta style

    *   ":sections" - body div section nav article aside h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6
        header footer address

    *   ":grouping" - p hr br pre dialog blockquote ol ul li dl dt dd

    *   ":text" - a Q cite em strong small mark dfn abbr progress meter code
        var samp kbd Sub sup span i b bdo ruby rt rp Time

    *   ":embedded" - figure img iframe embed object param video audio
        source canvas area

    *   ":tabular" - table thead tbody tfoot th td colgroup col caption

    *   ":form" - form fieldset label input button select datalist optgroup
        option textarea output

  Object Oriented Interface
    You can also use these functions as methods of an object blessed into
    the HTML::HTML5::Builder package.

      my $b = HTML::HTML5::Builder->new;
      my $document = $b->html(
        -lang => 'en',
        $b->head(
          $b->title('Test', \(my $foo)),
          $b->meta(-charset => 'utf-8'),
        ),
        $b->body(
          $b->h1('Test'),
          $b->p('This is a test.')
        ),
      );

  Using with RDF::RDFa::Generator
    RDF::RDFa::Generator has a "nodes" method which returns a handy list of
    "XML::LibXML::Node" objects.

      use DateTime;
      use HTML::HTML5::Builder qw[:standard];
      use RDF::RDFa::Generator;
      use RDF::Trine;
  
      my $url   = 'http://dbpedia.org/data/Charles_Darwin';
      my $model = RDF::Trine::Model->new;
      RDF::Trine::Parser->parse_url_into_model($url, $model);
  
      my $gen = RDF::RDFa::Generator->new(style=>'HTML::Pretty');
  
      print html(
        head(
          title("Some Data About Charles Darwin"),
          ),
        body(
          h1("Some Data About Charles Darwin"),
          $gen->nodes($model),
          hr(),
          address(
            "Source: $url", br(),
            "Generated: ", Time(DateTime->now),
            ),
          ),
        );

    Nice?

  Using with XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint
    HTML::HTML5::Builder doesn't nicely indent your markup, but
    XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint can.

      use HTML::HTML5::Builder qw(:standard);
      use XML::LibXML::PrettyPrint qw(print_xml);
      print_xml html(
        head(title("Test")),
        body(h1("Test"), p("This is a test.")),
        );

BUGS
    Please report any bugs to
    <http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=HTML-HTML5-Builder>.

SEE ALSO
    XML::LibXML, HTML::HTML5::Writer, HTML::HTML5::Builder::Document.

AUTHOR
    Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
    This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Toby Inkster.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
    THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
    WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
    MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.