NAME

       CSS::Minifier - Perl extension for minifying CSS

SYNOPSIS

       To minify a CSS file and have the output written directly to another file

         use CSS::Minifier qw(minify);
         open(INFILE, 'myStylesheet.css') or die;
         open(OUTFILE, 'myStylesheet.css') or die;
         minify(input => *INFILE, outfile => *OUTFILE);
         close(INFILE);
         close(OUTFILE);

       To minify a CSS string literal. Note that by omitting the outfile parameter a the minified code is
       returned as a string.

         my minifiedCSS = minify(input => 'div {font-family: serif;}');

       To include a copyright comment at the top of the minified code.

         minify(input => 'div {font-family: serif;}', copyright => 'BSD License');

       The "input" parameter is manditory. The "output" and "copyright" parameters are optional and can be used
       in any combination.

DESCRIPTION

       This module removes unnecessary whitespace from CSS. The primary requirement developing this module is to
       not break working stylesheets: if working CSS is in input then working CSS is output. The Mac/Internet
       Explorer comment hack will be minimized but not stripped and so will continue to function.

       This module understands space, horizontal tab, new line, carriage return, and form feed characters to be
       whitespace. Any other characters that may be considered whitespace are not minimized. These other
       characters include paragraph separator and vertical tab.

       For static CSS files, it is recommended that you minify during the build stage of web deployment. If you
       minify on-the-fly then it might be a good idea to cache the minified file. Minifying static files on-the-
       fly repeatedly is wasteful.

   EXPORT
       None by default.

       Exportable on demand: minifiy()

SEE ALSO

       This project is developed using an SVN repository. To check out the repository svn co
       http://dev.michaux.ca/svn/random/CSS-Minifier

       You may also be interested in the JavaScript::Minifier module also available on CPAN.

AUTHORS

       Peter Michaux, <petermichaux@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2007 by Peter Michaux

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.