Re: problems installing HTML::Tree

[Jeffrey Kegler]

in reply to problems installing HTML::Tree

You might want to look at Marpa-HTML, which also does high-level HTML parsing using a new parsing algorithm. As the author of Marpa-HTML I am biased, but I use Marpa-HTML for my own work. I think you may find its interface handy and that the power of the underlying Marpa algorithm pays off in this application.

[metaperl]

ou might want to look at Marpa-HTML

the docs for Marpa::HTML look very similar to Marpa::UrHTML. How do those 2 packages differ?

also, it looks like Marpa::HTML is focused on parsing and a bit of tree transformation. an example of complex HTML rendering (such as a zebra table with 3 different "stripes") would be interesting.

Also, how do you output the final document as HTML when done? Is there a method similar to ->as_HTML in TreeBuilder?

[Jeffrey Kegler]

Marpa-HTML is derived from, and replaces Marpa::UrHTML.

For an example of how to output the HTML, look at the html_fmt utility which is part of the Marpa-HTML distribution. Warning: html_fmt is primarily intended to pretty-print HTML for reading. This keeps it pretty simple. I find most of the time the HTML output also renders the same as the input, but you can't rely on that.

I'll look into providing an equivalent to as_HTML(). Transforming a table with zebra striping might be a good example for me to add. I'll also look into that.