Translate HTML Tags

biohisham has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks, I have been wanting to get a certain module that could enable me to interpret HTML tags and translate them into their respective view with ease in a similar way to the node posting here in PM, but my application would run offline. Searched the CPAN, I found:

Text::TagTemplate
HTML::SimpleParse
HTML::Parser::Simple

in addition to the markdown modules suggested to me by a Perl Monk, however, these modules did not seem to offer but an overwhelm of the simple functionality that I want, I have already written this Tk GUI that I need to set its view button active to show a fed-in text after formatting it. This fed-in text itself would contain HTML tags provided by the user, I need a module that would read in this input, and enable viewing it in a browser or in another text area embedded into the interface, all this works offline so no need for CGI intervention. Any Guidance and suggestions would be taken in with gratitude.

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Re: Translate HTML Tags by ww (Archbishop) on Aug 23, 2009 at 16:15 UTC
The method you're asking for seems like a convoluted way to deal with the problem space you've reported. How do you view nodes here? With a browser. So why not do the same with your challenge? Write your script to accept input (which, I gather, is supposed to be valid html) and to write that to a file (naming could be as simple as `\d.html` with incrementing of the digits. Expand the script to invoke the browser of your choice on `file:///\d.html`. View it in the browser. Or, is there some constraint you didn't mention or that I missed?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Translate HTML Tags by biohisham (Priest) on Aug 24, 2009 at 19:13 UTC
Thanks for your reply, this is the way I have visualized it, but I was giving a priority to viewing the HTML entered into one text area within the neighboring text area. I am willing to take a dive into whatever material that can be of inspirational-value to me in this regard, because this is like my first project, a personal project that I am willing to share. as long as the experience factor is concerned, I am still new to programming hence I find myself that I have a lot to study and apply with diligence. Excellence is an Endeavor of Persistence. Chance Favors a Prepared Mind.	[reply] [d/l]