Re: Ordering meta tags with HTML::Element

Generally sub-classing is the way to go, but sub-classing HTML::Element can be pretty ugly, so not such an easy decision in this case.

If you aren't opposed to dirty little hacks, you could modify the attribute names you make to take advantage of the "sort keys" used in the starttag sub to order the attributes.

e.g. instead of

$m_el->attr('name',$m);
$m_el->attr('content',$meta{$m});
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you write

$m_el->attr('aa01_name',$m);
$m_el->attr('aa02_content',$meta{$m});
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Then you just post process $out to substitue in the real attribute names. e.g. $out =~ s/aa01_name/name/g

I only feel a little dirty ;)

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Re^2: Ordering meta tags with HTML::Element by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 15, 2016 at 11:18 UTC
Maybe a better convention would be to use leading whitespace to enforce the ordering: `$m_el->attr(' name',$m); $m_el->attr(' content',$meta{$m});` [download] This way, the output would create the attribute "names" with their leading whitespace, but in the correct order. And hopefully, the receiving side won't care about the additional whitespace.	[reply] [d/l]