Re: problems installing HTML::Tree

You might want to look at Marpa-HTML, which also does high-level HTML parsing using a new parsing algorithm. As the author of Marpa-HTML I am biased, but I use Marpa-HTML for my own work. I think you may find its interface handy and that the power of the underlying Marpa algorithm pays off in this application.

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Re^2: problems installing HTML::Tree by metaperl (Curate) on May 10, 2010 at 15:45 UTC
ou might want to look at Marpa-HTML the docs for Marpa::HTML look very similar to Marpa::UrHTML. How do those 2 packages differ? also, it looks like Marpa::HTML is focused on parsing and a bit of tree transformation. an example of complex HTML rendering (such as a zebra table with 3 different "stripes") would be interesting. Also, how do you output the final document as HTML when done? Is there a method similar to `->as_HTML` in TreeBuilder? The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development. -- Terence Parr, "Enforcing Strict Model View Separation in Template Engines"	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: problems installing HTML::Tree by Jeffrey Kegler (Hermit) on May 16, 2010 at 04:08 UTC
Marpa-HTML is derived from, and replaces Marpa::UrHTML. For an example of how to output the HTML, look at the `html_fmt` utility which is part of the Marpa-HTML distribution. Warning: `html_fmt` is primarily intended to pretty-print HTML for reading. This keeps it pretty simple. I find most of the time the HTML output also renders the same as the input, but you can't rely on that. I'll look into providing an equivalent to `as_HTML()`. Transforming a table with zebra striping might be a good example for me to add. I'll also look into that.	[reply]