I've had a request to write a subclass to HTML::StripScripts so that it will return an XML::LibXML::DocumentFragment instead of straight HTML text.

HTML::StripScripts accepts tokens (eg from HTML::Parser), processes them and returns the HTML in string form. I'd like to be able to return XML::LibXML elements without libxml having to reparse the HTML

Questions;

What I was thinking along these lines:


    $self->{_HXS_parent} = $context eq 'Document'
                        ? XML::LibXML::Document->new($version,$encodin
+g)
                        : XML::LibXML::DocumentFragment->new();

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and 

   sub output_element {
       my ( $self, $tag, $attributes, $content ) = @_;
       my $element = XML::LibXML::Element->new( $tag );

       for my $key ( keys %$attributes ) {
             $element->setAttribute( $key, $attributes->{$key} );
       }
       $self->{ _HXS_parent }->append_child( $element );
  }

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I know that this doesn't take into account the whole nesting thing, but what I'm really wanting to know is, would this be the fastest way to generate the document/fragment, or would it be faster to reparse the output in XS with $parser->parse_html_string? It would certainly be a whole lot simpler!

thanks

Clint

In reply to Returning an XML::LibXML::DocumentFragment from HTML::StripScripts by clinton

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