| PackageDescription | Objects of the 'HTML::Parser' class will recognize markup and separate it
from plain text (alias data content) in HTML documents. As different kinds
of markup and text are recognized, the corresponding event handlers are
invoked.
'HTML::Parser' is not a generic SGML parser. We have tried to make it able
to deal with the HTML that is actually "out there", and it normally parses
as closely as possible to the way the popular web browsers do it instead of
strictly following one of the many HTML specifications from W3C. Where
there is disagreement, there is often an option that you can enable to get
the official behaviour.
The document to be parsed may be supplied in arbitrary chunks. This makes
on-the-fly parsing as documents are received from the network possible.
If event driven parsing does not feel right for your application, you might
want to use 'HTML::PullParser'. This is an 'HTML::Parser' subclass that
allows a more conventional program structure. |