HTML::Tree - phpMan

NAME
    HTML::Tree - build and scan parse-trees of HTML

VERSION
    This document describes version 5.07 of HTML::Tree, released August 31,
    2017 as part of HTML-Tree.

SYNOPSIS
        use HTML::TreeBuilder;
        my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
        $tree->parse_file($filename);

            # Then do something with the tree, using HTML::Element
            # methods -- for example:

        $tree->dump

            # Finally:

        $tree->delete;

DESCRIPTION
    HTML-Tree is a suite of Perl modules for making parse trees out of HTML
    source. It consists of mainly two modules, whose documentation you
    should refer to: HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::Element.

    HTML::TreeBuilder is the module that builds the parse trees. (It uses
    HTML::Parser to do the work of breaking the HTML up into tokens.)

    The tree that TreeBuilder builds for you is made up of objects of the
    class HTML::Element.

    If you find that you do not properly understand the documentation for
    HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::Element, it may be because you are
    unfamiliar with tree-shaped data structures, or with object-oriented
    modules in general. Sean Burke has written some articles for *The Perl
    Journal* ("www.tpj.com") that seek to provide that background. The full
    text of those articles is contained in this distribution, as:

    HTML::Tree::AboutObjects
        "User's View of Object-Oriented Modules" from TPJ17.

    HTML::Tree::AboutTrees
        "Trees" from TPJ18

    HTML::Tree::Scanning
        "Scanning HTML" from TPJ19

    Readers already familiar with object-oriented modules and tree-shaped
    data structures should read just the last article. Readers without that
    background should read the first, then the second, and then the third.

METHODS
    All these methods simply redirect to the corresponding method in
    HTML::TreeBuilder. It's more efficient to use HTML::TreeBuilder
    directly, and skip loading HTML::Tree at all.

  new
    Redirects to "new" in HTML::TreeBuilder.

  new_from_file
    Redirects to "new_from_file" in HTML::TreeBuilder.

  new_from_content
    Redirects to "new_from_content" in HTML::TreeBuilder.

  new_from_url
    Redirects to "new_from_url" in HTML::TreeBuilder.

SUPPORT
    You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

        perldoc HTML::Tree

        You can also look for information at:

    *   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

        <http://annocpan.org/dist/HTML-Tree>

    *   CPAN Ratings

        <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/HTML-Tree>

    *   RT: CPAN's request tracker

        <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=HTML-Tree>

    *   Search CPAN

        <http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Tree>

    *   Stack Overflow

        <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/html-tree>

        If you have a question about how to use HTML-Tree, Stack Overflow is
        the place to ask it. Make sure you tag it both "perl" and
        "html-tree".

SEE ALSO
    HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Element, HTML::Tagset, HTML::Parser,
    HTML::DOMbo

    The book *Perl & LWP* by Sean M. Burke published by O'Reilly and
    Associates, 2002. ISBN: 0-596-00178-9

    It has several chapters to do with HTML processing in general, and
    HTML-Tree specifically. There's more info at:

        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/

        http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596001789

SOURCE REPOSITORY
    HTML-Tree is now maintained using Git. The main public repository is
    <https://github.com/kentfredric/HTML-Tree>.

    The best way to send a patch is to make a pull request there.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    Thanks to Gisle Aas, Sean Burke and Andy Lester for their original work.

    Thanks to Chicago Perl Mongers (http://chicago.pm.org) for their patches
    submitted to HTML::Tree as part of the Phalanx project
    (http://qa.perl.org/phalanx).

    Thanks to the following people for additional patches and documentation:
    Terrence Brannon, Gordon Lack, Chris Madsen and Ricardo Signes.

AUTHOR
    Current maintainers:

    *   Christopher J. Madsen "<perl AT cjmweb.net>"

    *   Jeff Fearn "<jfearn AT cpan.org>"

    Original HTML-Tree author:

    *   Gisle Aas

    Former maintainers:

    *   Sean M. Burke

    *   Andy Lester

    *   Pete Krawczyk "<petek AT cpan.org>"

    You can follow or contribute to HTML-Tree's development at
    <https://github.com/kentfredric/HTML-Tree>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas, 1999-2004 Sean M. Burke, 2005 Andy
    Lester, 2006 Pete Krawczyk, 2010 Jeff Fearn, 2012 Christopher J. Madsen.
    (Except the articles contained in HTML::Tree::AboutObjects,
    HTML::Tree::AboutTrees, and HTML::Tree::Scanning, which are all
    copyright 2000 The Perl Journal.)

    Except for those three TPJ articles, the whole HTML-Tree distribution,
    of which this file is a part, is free software; you can redistribute it
    and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

    Those three TPJ articles may be distributed under the same terms as Perl
    itself.

    The programs in this library are distributed in the hope that they will
    be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty
    of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.