HTML::DOM, version 0.026

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.


RECENT CHANGES

See the Changes file for the long version.

0.026
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• css_url_fetcher
• Parsing of comments (RT #48168)

0.025
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• HTML::DOM::Interface  now  maps  HTML::DOM::TreeBuilder  to
  HTMLHtmlElement,  instead of  HTMLElement.  (This class  is
  used for the <html>  element when the tree is being built.)
• innerHTML  no longer dies when serialising a text node that was cre-
  ated from an object with string overloading.

0.024
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Increased the CSS::DOM required version to 0.06.  (I forgot it in the previous release.)


TO DO

- Finish Level 2 Events support (HTMLEvents)
- Finish Level 2 CSS support
- outerHTML/innerText?
- Other DOM interfaces (the rest of level 2, and level 3)
- HTML 5 stuff
- Write more complete documentation
- Write more tests
- Finishing checking for memory leaks (run all tests under
  Devel::Leak::Object)


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 0.06 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) 2007-9 Father Chrysostomos

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as perl.
