# phpman > perldoc > HTML::HeadParser
## NAME
[HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown) - Parse section of a HTML document
## SYNOPSIS
require [HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown);
$p = [HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)->new;
$p->parse($text) and print "not finished";
$p->header('Title') # to access ....
$p->header('Content-Base') # to access
$p->header('Foo') # to access
$p->header('X-Meta-Author') # to access
$p->header('X-Meta-Charset') # to access
## DESCRIPTION
The "[HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)" is a specialized (and lightweight) "[HTML::Parser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AParser/markdown)" that will only parse
the ... section of an HTML document. The parse() method will return a FALSE value
as soon as some element or body text are found, and should not be called again after
this.
Note that the "[HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)" might get confused if raw undecoded UTF-8 is passed to the
### parse
The "[HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)" keeps a reference to a header object, and the parser will update this
header object as the various elements of the section of the HTML document are recognized.
The following header fields are affected:
Content-Base:
The *Content-Base* header is initialized from the element.
Title:
The *Title* header is initialized from the ... element.
Isindex:
The *Isindex* header will be added if there is a element in the . The header
value is initialized from the *prompt* attribute if it is present. If no *prompt* attribute
is given it will have '?' as the value.
X-Meta-Foo:
All elements containing a "name" attribute will result in headers using the prefix
"X-Meta-" appended with the value of the "name" attribute as the name of the header, and the
value of the "content" attribute as the pushed header value.
elements containing a "http-equiv" attribute will result in headers as in above, but
without the "X-Meta-" prefix in the header name.
elements containing a "charset" attribute will result in an "X-Meta-Charset" header,
using the value of the "charset" attribute as the pushed header value.
The ':' character can't be represented in header field names, so if the meta element
contains this char it's substituted with '-' before forming the field name.
## METHODS
The following methods (in addition to those provided by the superclass) are available:
$hp = [HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)->new
$hp = [HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)->new( $header )
The object constructor. The optional $header argument should be a reference to an object
that implement the header() and push_header() methods as defined by the "[HTTP::Headers](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTTP%3A%3AHeaders/markdown)"
class. Normally it will be of some class that is a or delegates to the "[HTTP::Headers](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTTP%3A%3AHeaders/markdown)"
class.
If no $header is given "[HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)" will create an "[HTTP::Headers](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTTP%3A%3AHeaders/markdown)" object by itself
(initially empty).
$hp->header;
Returns a reference to the header object.
$hp->header( $key )
Returns a header value. It is just a shorter way to write "$hp->header->header($key)".
## EXAMPLE
$h = [HTTP::Headers](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTTP%3A%3AHeaders/markdown)->new;
$p = [HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)->new($h);
$p->parse(<Stupid example
Normal text starts here.
EOT
undef $p;
print $h->title; # should print "Stupid example"
## SEE ALSO
[HTML::Parser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AParser/markdown), [HTTP::Headers](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTTP%3A%3AHeaders/markdown)
The "[HTTP::Headers](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTTP%3A%3AHeaders/markdown)" class is distributed as part of the *libwww-perl* package. If you don't have
that distribution installed you need to provide the $header argument to the "[HTML::HeadParser](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/HTML%3A%3AHeadParser/markdown)"
constructor with your own object that implements the documented protocol.
## COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1996-2001 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
Perl itself.