NAME

HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as plaintext

VERSION

version 2.04.01

SYNOPSIS

require HTML::TreeBuilder;
$tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html");

require HTML::FormatText;
$formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
print $formatter->format($tree);

DESCRIPTION

The HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain latin1 text. All character attributes (bold/italic/underline) are ignored. Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.

You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter:

leftmargin (alias lm)

The column of the left margin. The default is 3.

rightmargin (alias rm)

The column of the right margin. The default is 72.

SEE ALSO

HTML::Formatter

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995-2002 Gisle Aas, and 2002- Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.

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

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

Current maintainer: Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

Original author: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

INSTALLATION

See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl modules.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-Format.

AVAILABILITY

The project homepage is http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Format.

The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit http://www.perl.com/CPAN/ to find a CPAN site near you, or see http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Format/.

The development version lives at http://github.com/nigelm/HTML-Format and may be cloned from git://github.com/nigelm/HTML-Format.git. Instead of sending patches, please fork this project using the standard git and github infrastructure.

AUTHORS

• Nigel Metheringham <nigelm@cpan.org>

• Sean M Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

• Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Nigel Metheringham, 2002-2005 Sean M Burke, 1999-2002 Gisle Aas.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.