HTML::FormatText::Links3pm

Usage

 use HTML::FormatText::Links;
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Links->format_file ($filename);
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Links->format_string ($html_string);
 $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Links->new (rightmargin => 60);
 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
 $text = $formatter->format ($tree);

Overview

"HTML::FormatText::Links" turns HTML into plain text using the "links" program.

The module interface is compatible with formatters like "HTML::FormatText", but all parsing etc is done by links. See "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions and options, all of which are supported by "HTML::FormatText::Links", with the following caveats.

"leftmargin", "rightmargin"

In past versions of links without the "-html-margin" option you always get an extra 3 spaces within the requested left and right margins.

"input_charset", "output_charset"

An output charset requires Links 2.0 or higher (or some such version), and as of 2.2 the output cannot be UTF-8 (though the input can be). Various unicode inputs are turned into reasonable output though, for example smiley face U+263A becomes ":-)".

Links can be a bit picky about its charset names. This module attempts to ease that by for instance turning "latin-1" (not accepted) into "latin1" (which is accepted). A full "ISO-8859-1" etc is accepted too.

Home page

<http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html>