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NAME

HTML::SyntaxHighlighter - a module for converting raw HTML into html-escaped, highlighted code; suitable for inclusion within a web page.

SYNOPSIS

Standalone

my $p = HTML::SyntaxHighlighter->new();
$p->parse_file( "$file" ) or die "Cannot open '$file': $!"...

From within HTML::Mason

<& /lib/header.m, title => "Formatted source code for '$file'", stylesheet => [ 'html_highlight.css' ] &>

<%perl>
 my $path = "/usr/data/www/hyperspeed.org/projects/html/examples";
 my $p = HTML::SyntaxHighlighter->new(
                                      out_func => sub{ $m->out( @_ ) },
                                      header => 0,
                                     );

 $p->parse_file( "$path/$file" ) or die "Cannot open '$path/$file': $!";
</%perl>

<& /lib/footer.m &>

<%once>
 use HTML::SyntaxHighlighter;
</%once>

<%args>
 $file
</%args>

DESCRIPTION

This module is designed to take raw HTML code, either from a variable or a file, html-escape it and highlight it (using stylesheets), rendering it suitable for inclusion in a web page. It is build on top of HTML::Parser.

It is intended primarily for people wanting to include 'example HTML code' in an dynamically generated web page (be it created with CGI, HTML::Mason, or whatever); if you find other uses, please let me know.

OPTIONS

Options can either be set from the constructor:

my $p = HTML::SyntaxHighlighter->new(
                                     default_type => 'xhtml'
                                     force_type => 1,
                                    );

Or by calling method with the same name:

$p->debug( 1 );
out_func

The output function. Can be one of the following:

A coderef

The function is called whenever output is generated.

$p->output( sub { $r->print( @_ ) } );
A filehandle globref

Output is redirected to the filehandle.

$p->output( \*DATAFILE );
A scalar ref

Output is saved to the scalar variable.

$p->output( \$data );

The default value is '\*STDOUT'.

If this option is turned off, then only tags between '<body>' and '</body>' will be outputted.

default_type

Determines whether we expect documents to be html or xhtml, which affects parsing slightly. Default is 'html'.

force_type

Normally, the doctype declaration will override default_type. If this option is set, then default_type will be used in all cases.

debug

Turns on debugging mode, which marks out sections of erroneous code, and attempt to correct some basic errors (e.g. not closing '<p>' tags).

br

The string to be used to generate line breaks in the output. Default value is '<br />'.

METHODS

Pretty much all of the other methods you will use are inherited from HTML::Parser.

Included are slightly adapted docs for the two most commonly used methods.

parse_file( $file )

Take code to be highlighted directly from a file. The $file argument can be a filename, an open file handle, or a reference to a an open file handle. If $file contains a filename and the file can't be opened, then themethod returns an undefined value and $! tells why it failed. Otherwise the return value is a reference to the syntaxhighlighter object.

parse( $string )

Parse $string as the next chunk of the HTML document. The return value is normally a reference to the syntaxhighlighter object.

NOTES

The module only generates the HTML. You will also require a stylesheet, which must either be included in or linked from your html file. One is included with this module ('examples/html_highlight.css'), which gives roughly the same colours as xemacs' html-mode does by default.

If you decide to make your own stylesheet, you will need definitions for the following:

D

The document type declaration.

H

Html, head and body tags.

B

Block-level elements; e.g. p, table, ol.

I

Inline elements; e.g. b, i, tt.

A

Tag attributes.

T

Plain text.

S

Text within 'script' and 'style' tags.

C

HTML comments.

X

Errors; only appear when 'debug' mode is on.

AUTHOR

Alex Bowley <kilinrax@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

HTML::Parser.