HTML::DOM, version 0.026
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, most of the level-2 event interfaces
and some of the level-2 style sheet interfaces.
RECENT CHANGES
See the Changes file for the long version.
0.026
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• css_url_fetcher
• Parsing of comments (RT #48168)
0.025
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• HTML::DOM::Interface now maps HTML::DOM::TreeBuilder to
HTMLHtmlElement, instead of HTMLElement. (This class is
used for the element when the tree is being built.)
• innerHTML no longer dies when serialising a text node that was cre-
ated from an object with string overloading.
0.024
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Increased the CSS::DOM required version to 0.06. (I forgot it in the previous release.)
TO DO
- Finish Level 2 Events support (HTMLEvents)
- Finish Level 2 CSS support
- outerHTML/innerText?
- Other DOM interfaces (the rest of level 2, and level 3)
- HTML 5 stuff
- Write more complete documentation
- Write more tests
- Finishing checking for memory leaks (run all tests under
Devel::Leak::Object)
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)
- LWP 1.13 or later
- CSS::DOM 0.06 or later
- HTML::Encoding is required if the parse_file method is to be used.
- constant::lexical
- Hash::Util::FieldHash::Compat
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) 2007-9 Father Chrysostomos
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as perl.