HTML::DOM, version 0.020

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.


CHANGES IN THIS RELEASE

Incompatible changes:
• HTML::DOM’s defaultView attribute no longer has anything assigned
  to it by default.
• The defaultView attribute now holds a weak reference to the view,
  and the view holds a strong reference to the document.

New features:
• HTML::DOM now has an event_parent method, with which you can add an
  object to the top of the event dispatch chain.
• HTML::DOM::NodeList::Magic’s constructor is now officially public.
  Use this if  you  need  to  create  a  custom  ‘live’  node  list.
• HTML::DOM  now has an  event_listeners_enabled  method  that  allows
  event handlers to be disabled. Also, any subclass of EventTarget can
  implement this to achieve the same effect.

Bug fixes:
• innerHTML no longer dies when there are event attributes in the HTML
  code fed to it.
And a couple of minor fixes. See the Changes file.


TO DO

- Finish Level 2 Events support (HTMLEvents)
- Finish Level 2 CSS support
- 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)
- 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.