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

NAME
       HTML::HeadParser - Parse  section of a HTML document

SYNOPSIS
        require HTML::HeadParser;
        $p = HTML::HeadParser->new;
        $p->parse($text) and  print "not finished";

        $p->header('Title')          # to access 
        $p->header('Content-Base')   # to access 
        $p->header('Foo')            # to access 

DESCRIPTION
       The "HTML::HeadParser" is a specialized (and lightweight)
       "HTML::Parser" that will only parse the ... section of an
       HTML document.  The parse() method will return a FALSE value as soon as
       some  element or body text are found, and should not be called
       again after this.

       Note that the "HTML::HeadParser" might get confused if raw undecoded
       UTF-8 is passed to the parse() method.  Make sure the strings are
       properly decoded before passing them on.

       The "HTML::HeadParser" keeps a reference to a header object, and the
       parser will update this header object as the various elements of the
        section of the HTML document are recognized.  The following
       header fields are affected:

       Content-Base:
           The Content-Base header is initialized from the 
           element.

       Title:
           The Title header is initialized from the 
           element.

       Isindex:
           The Isindex header will be added if there is a  element in
           the .  The header value is initialized from the prompt
           attribute if it is present.  If no prompt attribute is given it
           will have '?' as the value.

       X-Meta-Foo:
           All  elements will initialize headers with the prefix
           ""X-Meta-"" on the name.  If the  element contains a
           "http-equiv" attribute, then it will be honored as the header name.

MMEETTHHOODDSS
       The following methods (in addition to those provided by the superclass)
       are available:

       $hp = HTML::HeadParser->new
       $hp = HTML::HeadParser->new( $header )
           The object constructor.  The optional $header argument should be a
           reference to an object that implement the header() and
           pushheader() methods as defined by the "HTTP::Headers" class.
           Normally it will be of some class that isa or delegates to the
           "HTTP::Headers" class.

           If no $header is given "HTML::HeadParser" will create an
           "HTTP::Header" object by itself (initially empty).

       $hp->header;
           Returns a reference to the header object.

       $hp->header( $key )
           Returns a header value.  It is just a shorter way to write
           "$hp->header->header($key)".

EEXXAAMMPPLLEE
        $h = HTTP::Headers->new;
        $p = HTML::HeadParser->new($h);
        $p->parse(<        
        
        Normal text starts here.
        EOT
        undef $p;
        print $h->title;   # should print "Stupid example"

SEE ALSO
       HTML::Parser, HTTP::Headers

       The "HTTP::Headers" class is distributed as part of the libwww-perl
       package.  If you don't have that distribution installed you need to
       provide the $header argument to the "HTML::HeadParser" constructor with
       your own object that implements the documented protocol.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 1996-2001 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.

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



perl v5.8.8                       2005-09-12               HTML::HeadParser(3)