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HTML::Formatter(3)    User Contributed Perl Documentation   HTML::Formatter(3)

NAME
       HTML::Formatter - Base class for HTML formatters

SYNOPSIS
	 use HTML::FormatSomething;
	 my $infile  = "whatever.html";
	 my $outfile = "whatever.file";
	 open OUT, ">$outfile"
	  or die "Can't write-open $outfile: $!\nAborting";
	 binmode(OUT);
	 print OUT HTML::FormatSomething->format_file(
	   $infile,
	     'option1' => 'value1',
	     'option2' => 'value2',
	     ...
	 );
	 close(OUT);

DESCRIPTION
       HTML::Formatter is a base class for classes that take HTML and format
       it to some output format.  When you take an object of such a base class
       and call "$formatter->format( $tree )" with an HTML::TreeBuilder (or
       HTML::Element) object, they return the

       HTML formatters are able to format a HTML syntax tree into various
       printable formats.  Different formatters produce output for different
       output media.  Common for all formatters are that they will return the
       formatted output when the format() method is called.  The format()
       method takes a HTML::Element object (usually the HTML::TreeBuilder root
       object) as parameter.

       Here are the four main methods that this class provides:

       SomeClass->format_file( $filename, option1 => value1, option2 =>
       value2, ... )
	   This returns a string consisting of the result of using the given
	   class to format the given HTML file according to the given
	   (optional) options.	Internally it calls "SomeClass->new( ...
	   )->format( ... )" on a new HTML::TreeBuilder object based on the
	   given HTML file.

       SomeClass->format_string( $html_source, option1 => value1, option2 =>
       value2, ... )
	   This returns a string consisting of the result of using the given
	   class to format the given HTML source according to the given
	   (optional) options. Internally it calls "SomeClass->new( ...
	   )->format( ... )" on a new HTML::TreeBuilder object based on the
	   given source.

       $formatter = SomeClass->new( option1 => value1, option2 => value2, ...
       )
	   This creates a new formatter object with the given options.

       $render_string = $formatter->format( $html_tree_object )
	   This renders the given HTML object accerting to the options set for
	   $formatter.

       After you've used a particular formatter object to format a particular
       HTML tree object, you probably should not use either again.

SEE ALSO
       HTML::FormatText, HTML::FormatPS, HTML::FormatRTF

       HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Element, HTML::Tree

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1995-2002 Gisle Aas, and 2002- Sean M. Burke. All rights
       reserved.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
       without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
       merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR
       Current maintainer: Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

       Original author: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

perl v5.10.1			  2004-06-02		    HTML::Formatter(3)
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