HTML::Tagset
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NAME
HTML::Tagset - data tables useful in parsing HTML
VERSION
Version 3.10
SYNOPSIS
use HTML::Tagset;
# Then use any of the items in the HTML::Tagset package
# as need arises
DESCRIPTION
This module contains several data tables useful in various kinds of
HTML parsing operations.
Note that all tag names used are lowercase.
In the following documentation, a "hashset" is a hash being used as a
set -- the hash conveys that its keys are there, and the actual values
associated with the keys are not significant. (But what values are
there, are always true.)
VARIABLES
Note that none of these variables are exported.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::emptyElement
This hashset has as values the tag-names (GIs) of elements that cannot
have content. (For example, "base", "br", "hr".) So
$HTML::Tagset::emptyElement{'hr'} exists and is true.
$HTML::Tagset::emptyElement{'dl'} does not exist, and so is not true.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::optionalEndTag
This hashset lists tag-names for elements that can have content, but
whose end-tags are generally, "safely", omissible. Example:
$HTML::Tagset::emptyElement{'li'} exists and is true.
hash %HTML::Tagset::linkElements
Values in this hash are tagnames for elements that might contain links,
and the value for each is a reference to an array of the names of
attributes whose values can be links.
hash %HTML::Tagset::boolean_attr
This hash (not hashset) lists what attributes of what elements can be
printed without showing the value (for example, the "noshade" attribute
of "hr" elements). For elements with only one such attribute, its
value is simply that attribute name. For elements with many such
attributes, the value is a reference to a hashset containing all such
attributes.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::isPhraseMarkup
This hashset contains all phrasal-level elements.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::is_Possible_Strict_P_Content
This hashset contains all phrasal-level elements that be content of a P
element, for a strict model of HTML.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::isHeadElement
This hashset contains all elements that elements that should be present
only in the 'head' element of an HTML document.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::isList
This hashset contains all elements that can contain "li" elements.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::isTableElement
This hashset contains all elements that are to be found only in/under a
"table" element.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::isFormElement
This hashset contains all elements that are to be found only in/under a
"form" element.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::isBodyMarkup
This hashset contains all elements that are to be found only in/under
the "body" element of an HTML document.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::isHeadOrBodyElement
This hashset includes all elements that I notice can fall either in the
head or in the body.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::isKnown
This hashset lists all known HTML elements.
hashset %HTML::Tagset::canTighten
This hashset lists elements that might have ignorable whitespace as
children or siblings.
array @HTML::Tagset::p_closure_barriers
This array has a meaning that I have only seen a need for in
"HTML::TreeBuilder", but I include it here on the off chance that some-
one might find it of use:
When we see a "<p>" token, we go lookup up the lineage for a p element
we might have to minimize. At first sight, we might say that if
there's a p anywhere in the lineage of this new p, it should be closed.
But that's wrong. Consider this document:
<html>
<head>
<title>foo</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>foo
<table>
<tr>
<td>
foo
<p>bar
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</p>
</body>
</html>
The second p is quite legally inside a much higher p.
My formalization of the reason why this is legal, but this:
<p>foo<p>bar</p></p>
isn't, is that something about the table constitutes a "barrier" to the
application of the rule about what p must minimize.
So @HTML::Tagset::p_closure_barriers is the list of all such bar-
rier-tags.
hashset %isCDATA_Parent
This hashset includes all elements whose content is CDATA.
CAVEATS
You may find it useful to alter the behavior of modules (like
"HTML::Element" or "HTML::TreeBuilder") that use "HTML::Tagset"'s data
tables by altering the data tables themselves. You are welcome to try,
but be careful; and be aware that different modules may or may react
differently to the data tables being changed.
Note that it may be inappropriate to use these tables for producing
HTML -- for example, %isHeadOrBodyElement lists the tagnames for all
elements that can appear either in the head or in the body, such as
"script". That doesn't mean that I am saying your code that produces
HTML should feel free to put script elements in either place! If you
are producing programs that spit out HTML, you should be intimately
familiar with the DTDs for HTML or XHTML (available at
"http://www.w3.org/"), and you should slavishly obey them, not the data
tables in this document.
SEE ALSO
HTML::Element, HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::LinkExtor
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 1995-2000 Gisle Aas.
Copyright 2000-2005 Sean M. Burke.
Copyright 2005 Andy Lester.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Most of the code/data in this module was adapted from code written by
Gisle Aas for "HTML::Element", "HTML::TreeBuilder", and "HTML::LinkEx-
tor". Then it was maintained by Sean M. Burke.
AUTHOR
Current maintainer: Andy Lester, "<andy at petdance.com>"
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-html-tagset at
rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=HTML-Tagset>. I will
be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on
your bug as I make changes.
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