HTML::Tidy -HTML validation in a Perl object


NAME

HTML::Tidy - (X)HTML validation in a Perl object


VERSION

Version 1.56


SYNOPSIS

    use HTML::Tidy;
    my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new( {config_file => 'path/to/config'} );
    $tidy->ignore( type => TIDY_WARNING, type => TIDY_INFO );
    $tidy->parse( "foo.html", $contents_of_foo );
    for my $message ( $tidy->messages ) {
        print $message->as_string;
    }


DESCRIPTION

HTML::Tidy is an HTML checker in a handy dandy object. It's meant as a replacement for HTML::Lint. If you're currently an HTML::Lint user looking to migrate, see the section Converting from HTML::Lint.


EXPORTS

Message types TIDY_ERROR, TIDY_WARNING and TIDY_INFO.

Everything else is an object method.


METHODS

new()

Create an HTML::Tidy object.

    my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new();

Optionally you can give a hashref of configuration parms.

    my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new( {config_file => 'path/to/tidy.cfg'} );

This configuration file will be read and used when you clean or parse an HTML file.

You can also pass options directly to tidyp.

    my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new( {
                                    output_xhtml => 1,
                                    tidy_mark => 0,
                                } );

See tidyp -help-config for the list of options supported by tidyp.

The following options are not supported by HTML::Tidy:

messages()

Returns the messages accumulated.

clear_messages()

Clears the list of messages, in case you want to print and clear, print and clear. If you don't clear the messages, then each time you call parse() you'll be accumulating more in the list.

ignore( parm => value [, parm => value ] )

Specify types of messages to ignore. Note that the ignore flags must be set before calling parse(). You can call ignore() as many times as necessary to set up all your restrictions; the options will stack up.

parse( $filename, $str [, $str...] )

Parses a string, or list of strings, that make up a single HTML file.

The $filename parm is only used as an identifier for your use. The file is not actually read and opened.

Returns true if all went OK, or false if there was some problem calling tidy, or parsing tidy's output.

clean( $str [, $str...] )

Cleans a string, or list of strings, that make up a single HTML file.

Returns the cleaned string as a single string.

tidyp_version()

libtidyp_version()

Returns the version of the underling tidyp library.


INSTALLING TIDYP

HTML::Tidy requires that tidyp be installed on your system. You can obtain tidyp through your distribution's package manager (make sure you install the development package with headers), or from the tidyp Git repository at http://github.com/petdance/tidyp.


CONVERTING FROM HTML::Lint

HTML::Tidy is different from HTML::Lint in a number of crucial ways.


BUGS & FEEDBACK

Please report any bugs or feature requests at the issue tracker on github http://github.com/petdance/html-tidy/issues. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

Please do NOT use http://rt.cpan.org.


SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc HTML::Tidy

You can also look for information at:


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Jonathan Rockway and Robert Bachmann for contributions.


AUTHOR

Andy Lester, <andy at petdance.com>


COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005-2013 by Andy Lester

This library is free software. You mean modify or distribute it under the Artistic License v2.0.

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