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.IX Title "HTML::PullParser 3"
.TH HTML::PullParser 3 2024-09-02 "perl v5.40.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
HTML::PullParser \- Alternative HTML::Parser interface
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\& use HTML::PullParser;
\&
\& $p = HTML::PullParser\->new(file => "index.html",
\&                            start => \*(Aqevent, tagname, @attr\*(Aq,
\&                            end   => \*(Aqevent, tagname\*(Aq,
\&                            ignore_elements => [qw(script style)],
\&                           ) || die "Can\*(Aqt open: $!";
\& while (my $token = $p\->get_token) {
\&     #...do something with $token
\& }
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The HTML::PullParser is an alternative interface to the HTML::Parser class.
It basically turns the HTML::Parser inside out.  You associate a file
(or any IO::Handle object or string) with the parser at construction time and
then repeatedly call \f(CW$parser\fR\->get_token to obtain the tags and text
found in the parsed document.
.PP
The following methods are provided:
.ie n .IP "$p = HTML::PullParser\->new( file => $file, %options )" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$p\fR = HTML::PullParser\->new( file => \f(CW$file\fR, \f(CW%options\fR )" 4
.IX Item "$p = HTML::PullParser->new( file => $file, %options )"
.PD 0
.ie n .IP "$p = HTML::PullParser\->new( doc => \e$doc, %options )" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$p\fR = HTML::PullParser\->new( doc => \e$doc, \f(CW%options\fR )" 4
.IX Item "$p = HTML::PullParser->new( doc => $doc, %options )"
.PD
A \f(CW\*(C`HTML::PullParser\*(C'\fR can be made to parse from either a file or a
literal document based on whether the \f(CW\*(C`file\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`doc\*(C'\fR option is
passed to the parser's constructor.
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The \f(CW\*(C`file\*(C'\fR passed in can either be a file name or a file handle
object.  If a file name is passed, and it can't be opened for reading,
then the constructor will return an undefined value and $!  will tell
you why it failed.  Otherwise the argument is taken to be some object
that the \f(CW\*(C`HTML::PullParser\*(C'\fR can \fBread()\fR from when it needs more data.
The stream will be \fBread()\fR until EOF, but not closed.
.Sp
A \f(CW\*(C`doc\*(C'\fR can be passed plain or as a reference
to a scalar.  If a reference is passed then the value of this scalar
should not be changed before all tokens have been extracted.
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Next the information to be returned for the different token types must
be set up.  This is done by simply associating an argspec (as defined
in HTML::Parser) with the events you have an interest in.  For
instance, if you want \f(CW\*(C`start\*(C'\fR tokens to be reported as the string
\&\f(CW\*(AqS\*(Aq\fR followed by the tagname and the attributes you might pass an
\&\f(CW\*(C`start\*(C'\fR\-option like this:
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\&   $p = HTML::PullParser\->new(
\&          doc   => $document_to_parse,
\&          start => \*(Aq"S", tagname, @attr\*(Aq,
\&          end   => \*(Aq"E", tagname\*(Aq,
\&        );
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At last other \f(CW\*(C`HTML::Parser\*(C'\fR options, like \f(CW\*(C`ignore_tags\*(C'\fR, and
\&\f(CW\*(C`unbroken_text\*(C'\fR, can be passed in.  Note that you should not use the
\&\fIevent\fR_h options to set up parser handlers.  That would confuse the
inner logic of \f(CW\*(C`HTML::PullParser\*(C'\fR.
.ie n .IP "$token = $p\->get_token" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$token\fR = \f(CW$p\fR\->get_token" 4
.IX Item "$token = $p->get_token"
This method will return the next \fItoken\fR found in the HTML document,
or \f(CW\*(C`undef\*(C'\fR at the end of the document.  The token is returned as an
array reference.  The content of this array match the argspec set up
during \f(CW\*(C`HTML::PullParser\*(C'\fR construction.
.ie n .IP "$p\->unget_token( @tokens )" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$p\fR\->unget_token( \f(CW@tokens\fR )" 4
.IX Item "$p->unget_token( @tokens )"
If you find out you have read too many tokens you can push them back,
so that they are returned again the next time \f(CW$p\fR\->get_token is called.
.SH EXAMPLES
.IX Header "EXAMPLES"
The 'eg/hform' script shows how we might parse the form section of
HTML::Documents using HTML::PullParser.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
HTML::Parser, HTML::TokeParser
.SH COPYRIGHT
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright 1998\-2001 Gisle Aas.
.PP
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.