HTML::Formatter - Base class for HTML formatters
use HTML::FormatSomething; my $infile = "whatever.html"; my $outfile = "whatever.file"; open OUT, ">$outfile" or die "Can't write-open $outfile: $!\nAborting"; binmode(OUT); print OUT HTML::FormatSomething->format_file( $infile, 'option1' => 'value1', 'option2' => 'value2', ... ); close(OUT);
HTML::Formatter is a base class for classes that take HTML
and format it to some output format. When you take an object
of such a base class and call $formatter->format( $tree )
with an HTML::TreeBuilder (or HTML::Element) object, they return
the
HTML formatters are able to format a HTML syntax tree into various printable formats. Different formatters produce output for different output media. Common for all formatters are that they will return the formatted output when the format() method is called. The format() method takes a HTML::Element object (usually the HTML::TreeBuilder root object) as parameter.
Here are the four main methods that this class provides:
SomeClass->new( ... )->format( ... )
on a new
HTML::TreeBuilder object based on the given HTML file.
SomeClass->new( ... )->format( ... )
on a new HTML::TreeBuilder object based on the given source.
After you've used a particular formatter object to format a particular HTML tree object, you probably should not use either again.
HTML::FormatText, HTML::FormatPS, HTML::FormatRTF
HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Element, HTML::Tree
Copyright (c) 1995-2002 Gisle Aas, and 2002- Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Current maintainer: Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
Original author: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>