HTML::FormatText::Html2text3pm

Usage

 use HTML::FormatText::Html2text;
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->format_file ($filename);
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->format_string ($html_string);
 $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->new;
 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
 $text = $formatter->format ($tree);

Overview

"HTML::FormatText::Html2text" turns HTML into plain text using the "html2text" program.

The module interface is compatible with formatters like "HTML::FormatText", but all parsing etc is done by html2text.

See "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions and options, with the following caveats,

"input_charset"

Currently this option has no effect. Input generally has to be latin-1 only, though the Debian extended "html2ext" interprets a "<meta>" charset directive in the HTML header.

Various "&" style named or numbered entities are recognised and result in suitable output. The suggestion would be entitized input for maximum portability among "html2text" versions.

"output_charset"

If set to "ascii" or "ANSI_X3.4-1968" (both case-insensitive) the "html2text -ascii" option is used, when available ("html2text" 1.3.2 from Jan 2004).

If set to "UTF-8" then Debian extension "-utf8" option is used (circa 2009).

Apart from this there's no control over the output charset.

Home page

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