HTML::FormatText(3p)

NAME
HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as plaintext

VERSION
version 2.11

SYNOPSIS
    use HTML::TreeBuilder;
    $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html");

    use HTML::FormatText;
    $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
    print $formatter->format($tree);

or, more simply:

    use HTML::FormatText;
    my $string = HTML::FormatText->format_file(
        'test.html',
        leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50
        );

DESCRIPTION
HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain latin1 text. All character attributes (bold/italic/underline) are ignored. Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.

HTML::FormatText is built on HTML::Formatter and documentation for that module applies to this - especially "new" in HTML::Formatter, "format_file" in HTML::Formatter and "format_string" in HTML::Formatter.

You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter:

leftmargin (alias lm)
    The column of the left margin. The default is 3.

rightmargin (alias rm)
    The column of the right margin. The default is 72.

SEE ALSO
HTML::Formatter

INSTALLATION
See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
You can make new bug reports, and view existing ones, through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-Format>.

AVAILABILITY
The project homepage is <https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-Format>.

The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find a CPAN site near you, or see <https://metacpan.org/module/HTML::Format/>.

AUTHORS

•   Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>

•   Sean M Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

•   Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002-2005 Sean M Burke, 1999-2002 Gisle Aas.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.