HTML-SimpleParse

Revision history for Perl extension HTML::SimpleParse.

0.12 Wed Jul 9 12:19:38 CDT 2003

Clarify the relationship between this module and HTML::TreeBuilder in the documentation. [suggested by Gisle Aas]
Moved regression tests from test.pl to t/basic.t

0.11 Sun Jan 26 10:00:41 CST 2003

Use Test.pm to output testing results.
Avoid an 'undefined value' warning when creating a SimpleParse object with an empty string.
Fixed a problem that caused an infinite loop in certain bizarre (and as yet unduplicated by me) situations. Reported by Peter Suschlik.
Added a Build.PL script to build & install via Module::Build.

0.10 Sat Jul 1 14:47:07 EDT 2000

Added the 'offset' attribute to each tree element, which tells you how many bytes the current tag is from the beginning of the HTML text. Idea from azamani@design-matters.com (Adrien Zamani).
&parse_args will now recognize bare end tags correctly. Thanks to Paul.Makepeace@realprogrammers.com (Paul Makepeace).

0.09 Sat May 27 12:18:38 EDT 2000

HTML tag attribute names should contain only letters, digits, periods, or hyphens. I've made this change to parse_args().
parse_args() handles single-quoted data now. [tim.holt@qsent.com (Tim Holt)]
parse_args() now respects a new flag 'fix_case', which can be set either as a package global or a class data member, which controls whether attribute names are upper-cased or lower-cased or left alone. Previously everything was left alone, which was incorrect because HTML tag attribute names are supposed to be case-insensitive. Now the default is to upper-case everything. [spot: tim.holt@qsent.com (Tim Holt)]

0.08 Sat Jan 29 03:16:48 EST 2000

Avoid warning when new() is called without feeding HTML to it [jerome.oneil@activeindexing.com (Jerome O'Neil)]

0.07 Wed Dec 1 17:09:23 EST 1999

The parse_args routine will now allow whitespace between an attribute and its value (on both sides of the equal sign). I believe this is compliant with the SGML spec at http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/sgml-lex/sgml.l . Thanks to jo@homepage-design.net (Joachim Seibert) for the spot.

0.06 Fri Feb 5 18:22:15 EST 1999

Fixed a bug in the parse_args routine that should properly handle escaping of parameters like var="a \"value\"" [thanks, Philippe Chiasson]

0.05 Thu Aug 20 12:11:53 EDT 1998

Fixed a bug in HTML::SimpleParse->parse_args('a="b=c"'). Thanks to Shenghuo ZHU for finding it.

0.04 Tue Aug 18 19:46:01 EDT 1998

added execute() method that lets you do: foreach ($p->tree) {
print $p->execute($_); } This lets Apache::OutputChain and Apache::SSIChain output their results in the correct order.

0.03 Fri Aug 7 13:03:34 EDT 1998

changed the output_* methods so that they return their output, instead of printing it. There's a new method, get_output(), which returns a string containing the parsed output. The output() method then prints the result of get_output(). This lets the module work with Apache::OutputChain. Thanks to Honza Pazdziora for the patches (which I modified a little).
fixed the processing of markup declarations (e.g. <!DOCTYPE ...>)
parse_args method can handle leading whitespace now: my %hash=HTML::SimpleParse->parse_args(' A="xx" B'); used to return an empty hash (thanks to Ben Laurie again).
parse_args makes sure that it starts matching at the beginning of the string you give it, by setting pos() to 0.

I'm also going to update Apache::SSI so that it can use this new version.

0.02 Thu Aug 6 16:08:22 EDT 1998

fixed bug in parse_args method pointed out by Ben Laurie: %hash=HTML::SimpleParse->parse_args('A="xx" B'); did not include B in %hash.

0.01 Fri Jun 26 17:42:41 1998