lib::HTML::FormatText

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NAME

HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as text

SYNOPSIS

 require HTML::TreeBuilder;
 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html");

 require HTML::FormatText;
 $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
 print $formatter->format($tree);

DESCRIPTION

The HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain latin1 text. All character attributes (bold/italic/underline) are ignored. Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.

You might specify the following parameters when constructing the formatter:

leftmargin (alias lm): The column of the left margin. The default is 3.
rightmargin (alias rm): The column of the right margin. The default is 72.

COPYRIGHT

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>

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Time: 01:04:24 GMT, April 18, 2024