Ubuntu Manpage: HTML::HeadParser - Parse <HEAD> section of a HTML document

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NAME

       HTML::HeadParser - Parse <HEAD> 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 <title>....</title>
        $p->header('Content-Base')   # to access <base href="http://...">
        $p->header('Foo')            # to access <meta http-equiv="Foo" content="...">
        $p->header('X-Meta-Author')  # to access <meta name="author" content="...">
        $p->header('X-Meta-Charset') # to access <meta charset="...">

DESCRIPTION

The "HTML::HeadParser" is a specialized (and lightweight) "HTML::Parser" that will only
parse the <HEAD>...</HEAD> section of an HTML document. The parse() method will return a
FALSE value as soon as some <BODY> 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 <HEAD> section of the HTML document are
recognized. The following header fields are affected:

Content-Base:
The Content-Base header is initialized from the <base href="..."> element.

Title:
The Title header is initialized from the <title>...</title> element.

Isindex:
The Isindex header will be added if there is a <isindex> element in the <head>. 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 <meta> elements containing a "name" attribute will result in headers using the
prefix "X-Meta-" appended with the value of the "name" attribute as the name of the
header, and the value of the "content" attribute as the pushed header value.

The ':' character can't be represented in header field names, so if the meta element
contains this char it's substituted with '-' before forming the field name.

METHODS

       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 push_header() methods as defined by the
           "HTTP::Headers" class.  Normally it will be of some class that is a or delegates to
           the "HTTP::Headers" class.

           If no $header is given "HTML::HeadParser" will create an "HTTP::Headers" 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)".

EXAMPLE

        $h = HTTP::Headers->new;
        $p = HTML::HeadParser->new($h);
        $p->parse(<<EOT);
        <title>Stupid example</title>
        <base href="http://www.linpro.no/lwp/">
        Normal text starts here.
        EOT
        undef $p;
        print $h->title;   # should print "Stupid example"

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