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- # Time-stamp: "2006-08-06 19:00:00 CDT"
-
- HTML-Tree
- ---------
-
- This distribution contains a suite of modules for representing,
- creating, and extracting information from HTML syntax trees; there is
- also relevent documentation. These modules used to be part of the
- libwww-perl distribution, but are now unbundled in order to facilitate
- a separate development track. Bug reports and discussions about these
- modules can be sent to the RT queue at <bug-html-tree@rt.cpan.org>.
-
- The modules and documentation present in this collection are:
-
- HTML::Tree -- overview of the modules.
-
- HTML::Tree::AboutObjects -- an article by Sean M. Burke from
- The Perl Journal #17: "User's View of Object-Oriented Modules"
-
- HTML::Tree::AboutTrees -- an article by Sean M. Burke from
- The Perl Journal #18: "Trees", about tree-shaped data
- structures in Perl.
-
- HTML::Tree::Scanning -- an article by Sean M. Burke from
- The Perl Journal #19: "Scanning HTML".
-
-
- HTML::Element - class for representing the nodes of the HTML syntax
- trees. The elements have other elements and text segments
- as children. The HTML::Element class has methods to build,
- alter, and traverse the structure of the tree.
-
- HTML::TreeBuilder - a class that uses HTML::Parser to read HTML
- document text and build from it a syntax tree made of
- HTML::Element nodes.
-
- HTML::Parse - deprecated module. Now just a wrapper around
- HTML::TreeBuilder
-
- HTML::AsSubs - module providing an easy way to build an HTML syntax
- tree by nesting functions.
-
-
-
- PREREQUISITES
-
- In order to install and use this package you will need Perl version
- 5.004 or better. You will also need to have an HTML-Parser and
- HTML-Tagset distributions installed. All of these should be available
- from CPAN.
-
-
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- Just follow the usual procedure:
-
- perl Makefile.PL
- make
- make test
- make install
-
- Or see also "perldoc perlmodinstall"
-
-
-
- SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE: BUY THE BOOK!
-
- The book /Perl & LWP/ by Sean M. Burke is published by
- O'Reilly and Associates, 2002. ISBN: 0-596-00178-9
-
- It has several chapters to do with HTML processing in general,
- and HTML-Tree specifically. There's more info at:
-
- http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001789
-
-
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas; 1999-2004 Sean M. Burke;
- 2005 Andy Lester; 2006 Pete Krawczyk. (Except the articles
- contained in HTML::Tree::AboutObjects, HTML::Tree::AboutTrees, and
- HTML::Tree::Scanning, which are all copyright 2000 The Perl Journal.)
-
- Except for those three TPJ articles, the whole HTML-Tree distribution,
- of which this file is a part, is free software; you can redistribute
- it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
-
- Those three TPJ articles may be distributed under the same terms as
- Perl itself.
-
- The programs in this library are distributed in the hope that they
- will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied
- warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
-
-