DOM Parsers

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

I seem to spend half of my life parsing SGML documents, and it occured to me that I hadn't come accross a perl DOM parser.

Now, am I being inept, or is this going to be my chance to take over the world, and develop one? *mwhahahaha*. Ahem.

I quite fancy being able to do something like:

$document->getElementById("wibble")->innerHTML = "Perl is great";
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And of course, then throwing the output at CGI.pm or disk or whatever.

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Re: DOM Parsers by MZSanford (Curate) on Jul 26, 2001 at 14:37 UTC
i know little and/or nothing about DOM, but found the following references. an article and the module XML::DOM. Not sure these are terribly good implimentations or interfaces ... so a write of a DOM::* specific set of modules might be a good idea. Just thought i would add what i did find. Thus spake the Master Programmer: "When you have learned to snatch the error code from the trap frame, it will be time for you to leave." -- The Tao of Programming	[reply]
Re: DOM Parsers by jodrell (Acolyte) on Jul 26, 2001 at 14:52 UTC
DOM will only work on well-formed XML, so you'd either have to use XHTML, or find a way to convert the standard grotty HTML most people (not me :-P) write to XHTML. That would be hairy indeed.	[reply]
Re (2): DOM Parsers by RatArsed (Monk) on Jul 26, 2001 at 15:01 UTC
Well, I've got the hair :o) If you wrote a really manky parser, I expect you could handle really manky code -- DOM was originally developed for (grotty) HTML, although I can see that XHTML would be easier to work with, as someone quoted the other day, "XML is for people who couldn't parse their way out of a paper bag"... XML::DOM looks to be halfway there, it would just need the methods added... Of course, if there was a W3 DOM Perl parser, the code required to then get it to render HTML would be virtually trivial. -- RatArsed	[reply]