Hey Monks!

I have a string that contains an HTML file. What I'd like to do is first decode any HTML entities contained in the text (only!) and then encode the text with entities that I can specify. What I want returned is the entire string, in the same order that it was in, with just the text encoded with HTML entities.

I have assumed that using a combination of HTML::Parser and HTML::Entities is the best way to achieve my goal, but if you have a better way, then let me here it

Anyhow, anyone know how to do this? I don't have much experience with HTML::Parser, and the documentation is not really clear to me on how to do this.

Thanks

Update

I used the HTML::TokeParser::Simple module and HTML::Entities to get the solution:

use HTML::Entities;
use HTML::TokeParser::Simple;

my $html = <some file>; #this is shorthand for example..assume the Fil
+e has been opened in slurp mode

my $parsed = parseHTML($html);

sub parseHTML {
    my $html = shift;
    my $parsed;
    my $p = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new(\$html);

    while ( my $token = $p->get_token ) {
        # This prints all text in an HTML doc (i.e., it strips the HTM
+L)
        if ($token->is_text) {
            my $text = $token->as_is;
            encode_entities($text, '",' );
            $parsed .= $text;
        } else {
            $parsed .= $token->as_is;
        }
     }

    return $parsed;
}

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Thanks!

In reply to How to use HTML::Parser to encode text with HTML entities? by locust

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