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Changes for version 5.03 - 2012-09-22

  • Release by Christopher J. Madsen
    • THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE OR TESTS
      • as_HTML no longer indents <textarea> (Tomohiro Hosaka) (RT #70385)
    • FIXES
      • as_trimmed_text did not accept '0' for extra_chars
    • DOCUMENTATION
      • Explain that as_text never adds whitespace (RT #66498)
      • Explain what extra_chars can contain for as_trimmed_text.

Documentation

article: "User's View of Object-Oriented Modules"
article on tree-shaped data structures in Perl
article: "Scanning HTML"

Modules

functions that construct a HTML syntax tree
Class for objects that represent HTML elements
discussion of HTML::Element's traverse method
Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder
build and scan parse-trees of HTML
Parser that builds a HTML syntax tree