HTML::DOM, version 0.017

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/miscellaneous changes:
• innerHTML is now writable.
• Mutation events are now  triggered  automatic-
  ally by HTML::DOM::Element’s various  get/set/
  removeAttribute(node) methods. It does not yet
  happen with the shorthand methods (those named
  after  the  attributes;  aka  the  DOM Level 0
  interface).
• Modification of the contents of a text or comment node now triggers
  a DOMCharacterDataModified event.
• The EventTarget interface is now a separate module from Node, so
  that anything can inherit from it.
• Event attribute methods ($elem->onclick, etc.) have been added.
• An Attr node can now be used as an EventTarget.
• Assigning a value to an Attr node now modifies its child text node
  in place instead of replacing it.
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)
- outerHTML?
- Other DOM interfaces (the rest of level 2, and level 3)
- Support callback routines for creating DOM objects for frames.
- HTML 5 stuff
- Add the EventTarget interface to Attr
- 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)
- LWP 1.13 or later
- CSS::DOM 0.05 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) 2007-8 Father Chrysostomos

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as perl.