NAME

       HTML::Parse - Deprecated, a wrapper around HTML::TreeBuilder

VERSION

       This document describes version 5.03 of HTML::Parse, released September 22, 2012 as part
       of HTML-Tree.

SYNOPSIS

         See the documentation for HTML::TreeBuilder

DESCRIPTION

       Disclaimer: This module is provided only for backwards compatibility with earlier versions
       of this library.  New code should not use this module, and should really use the
       HTML::Parser and HTML::TreeBuilder modules directly, instead.

       The "HTML::Parse" module provides functions to parse HTML documents.  There are two
       functions exported by this module:

       parse_html($html) or parse_html($html, $obj)
           This function is really just a synonym for $obj->parse($html) and $obj is assumed to
           be a subclass of "HTML::Parser".  Refer to HTML::Parser for more documentation.

           If $obj is not specified, the $obj will default to an internally created new
           "HTML::TreeBuilder" object configured with strict_comment() turned on.  That class
           implements a parser that builds (and is) a HTML syntax tree with HTML::Element objects
           as nodes.

           The return value from parse_html() is $obj.

       parse_htmlfile($file, [$obj])
           Same as parse_html(), but pulls the HTML to parse, from the named file.

           Returns "undef" if the file could not be opened, or $obj otherwise.

       When a "HTML::TreeBuilder" object is created, the following variables control how parsing
       takes place:

       $HTML::Parse::IMPLICIT_TAGS
           Setting this variable to true will instruct the parser to try to deduce implicit
           elements and implicit end tags.  If this variable is false you get a parse tree that
           just reflects the text as it stands.  Might be useful for quick & dirty parsing.
           Default is true.

           Implicit elements have the implicit() attribute set.

       $HTML::Parse::IGNORE_UNKNOWN
           This variable contols whether unknow tags should be represented as elements in the
           parse tree.  Default is true.

       $HTML::Parse::IGNORE_TEXT
           Do not represent the text content of elements.  This saves space if all you want is to
           examine the structure of the document.  Default is false.

       $HTML::Parse::WARN
           Call warn() with an appropriate message for syntax errors.  Default is false.

REMEMBER!

       HTML::TreeBuilder objects should be explicitly destroyed when you're finished with them.
       See HTML::TreeBuilder.

SEE ALSO

       HTML::Parser, HTML::TreeBuilder, HTML::Element

AUTHOR

       Current maintainers:

       •   Christopher J. Madsen "<perl AT cjmweb.net>"

       •   Jeff Fearn "<jfearn AT cpan.org>"

       Original HTML-Tree author:

       •   Gisle Aas

       Former maintainers:

       •   Sean M. Burke

       •   Andy Lester

       •   Pete Krawczyk "<petek AT cpan.org>"

       You can follow or contribute to HTML-Tree's development at
       <http://github.com/madsen/HTML-Tree>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas, 1999-2004 Sean M. Burke, 2005 Andy Lester, 2006 Pete
       Krawczyk, 2010 Jeff Fearn, 2012 Christopher J. Madsen.

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

       The programs in this library are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
       without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for
       a particular purpose.