HTML::DOM, version 0.013
HTML::DOM is a Perl implementation of the HTML Document Object Model
This is an alpha release. So far, the level-2 core and HTML DOM
interfaces have been implemented, and some of the level-2 event and
style sheet interfaces.
CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE
New features:
• HTML::DOM::Interface now indicates which members have UTF-16
equivalents.
• Changes to conform to the Level-2 HTML DOM module (see the
Changes file).
• HTML::DOM::Exception now has a ‘code’ method. I don’t know how I
missed this.
• The brand new shiny default_event_handler_for method has been added.
It makes it less cumbersome to provide default behaviours for diffe-
rent event types.
• All HTML elements now have a click method--something from HTML 5 (I
seem to be getting ahead of myself).
Bug fixes — see the Changes file
TO DO
- Finish Level 2 Events support
- Finish Level 2 CSS support
- Finish DOM Level 0 event support (add event properties)
- Provide support for multiple default event handers, each assigned
to a different type of event
- innerHTML (and outerHTML?)
- Other DOM interfaces (the rest of level 2, and level 3)
- Support callback routines for creating DOM objects for frames.
- HTML 5 stuff
- Write more complete documentation
- Write more tests
INSTALLATION
The easiest way to install this module is to use the CPAN module or
the cpan script:
[sudo] perl -MCPAN -e "install HTML::DOM"
[sudo] cpan HTML::DOM
Or you can use the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
[sudo] make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires perl 5.8.2 or later and the following
Perl modules:
- Scalar::Util 1.14 or later
- Exporter 5.57 or later
- HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::Element (both part of the HTML::Tree
distribution) (tested with 3.23)
- URI (tested with 1.35)
- HTTP::Headers::Util is required for writing cookies.
- HTML::Form 1.054 is required if any of the methods provided for
WWW::Mechanize compatibility are to be used.
- CSS::DOM 0.03 or later
- HTML::Encoding is required if the parse_file method is to be used.
- constant::lexical
DOCUMENTATION
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.
perldoc HTML::DOM
Or try using man (it's faster, in my experience):
man HTML::DOM
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2007 Father Chrysostomos
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as perl.