HTML::DOM, version 0.036
HTML::DOM is a Perl implementation of the HTML Document Object Model
This is an alpha release. So far, the level-2 core, HTML and event
DOM interfaces have been implemented, and some of the level-2 style
sheet interfaces.
RECENT CHANGES
See the Changes file for the long version.
0.036
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Incompatible change: A newly-created HTML::DOM object no longer has
html, head and body elements. These are not created until open, write
or parse_file is called.
New features:
• New innerText method on HTML elements
• css_url_fetcher now returns the previously assigned value.
• css_url_fetcher no longer clobbers an existing link element handler,
because it now uses a new, separate mechanism.
A long list of bug fixes.
0.035
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• getElementById can now once more see sub-elements of forms.
• The base method is no longer affected by previous regexp matches.
0.034
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• A couple of incompatible changes that affect only those who are
doing arcane things with this distribution.
• HTML::DOM’s title method no longer dies when the title element does
not exist.
• Event dispatch no longer leaves junk in $@.
• We now preserve whitespace in the DOM.
• get_event_listeners works better with subclasses.
• getElementById now works when the element’s ID attribute is set to
a reference.
TO DO
- 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 0.07 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.