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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
=head1 NAME
html2perlstream - convert an HTML document to Perl code for that document
=head1 SYNOPSIS
html2perlstream
html2perlstream [options] -
html2perlstream [options] file.html .. file.html
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Takes an HTML file, and produces from it a Perl script that will
generate that HTML using the L<HTML::Stream> module.
For usage, just say:
html2perlstream
The normal form is:
html2perlstream [-options] [files]
Any named HTML input file F<file.html> will cause output script
F<file.html.pl> to be generated. To read from the standard input,
specify '-', like this:
html2perlstream - < test.html
If reading from the standard input, the output Perl code goes to the
standard output. So if you want to run it right away to see the output,
just do this:
html2perlstream - < test.html | perl
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 4
=item B<-d>
Automatically load and run the output Perl file, then do a diff on
that and the input file (you must input from a file and output to a
file in order to use this).
html2perlstream -w -d testin/test.html
You'll get fewer differences if you build the code with C<-w>.
=item B<-w>
Try to generate code which will output all whitespace between tags verbatim.
The default code only outputs whitespace if it is believed to be
needed; e.g., if we are inside a C<PRE> environment.
=back
=head1 REQUIRES
To run this, you need:
HTML::Entities
HTML::Parser
=head1 VERSION
$Id: html2perlstream,v 1.10 2001/08/17 00:50:00 eryq Exp $
=head1 AUTHOR
Eryq, 11 Jan 1997, F<eryq@zeegee.com> or thereabouts.
Thanks (independently) to Tony Cebzanov and John Buckman for suggesting
that I write a tool like this.
=cut
# Try this:
#
# perl -I. bin/html2perlstream -w testin/test.html;
# perl -I. testin/test.html.pl > testin/test2.html
# diff testin/test.html testin/test2.html
use strict;
use vars qw($VERSION
$opt_d
$opt_w
);
#------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Globals...
#
#------------------------------------------------------------
# Version...
( $VERSION ) = '$Revision: 1.10 $ ' =~ /\$Revision:\s+([^\s]+)/;
# Escape-map:
my %PerlUnescape = (
"\b"=>'b',
"\f"=>'f',
"\r"=>'r',
"\t"=>'t',
"\n"=>'n',
);
my $PerlEscapePat = join('',keys(%PerlUnescape));
#------------------------------------------------------------
# str2perl STRING,[QUOTECHAR]
#------------------------------------------------------------
# Convert a string to a double-quoted Perl string.
# Unsafe characters and non-printables are escaped.
#
# If QUOTECHAR is nonempty (default is '"'), it is escaped and also
# wrapped around the string.
sub str2perl {
my ($str, $qq) = @_;
defined($qq) or $qq = '"';
$str =~ s/[\\\$\@]/\\$&/g; # unsafe
$str =~ s/$qq/\\$qq/g if $qq; # quote char
$str =~ s/[$PerlEscapePat]/\\$PerlUnescape{$&}/og; # newlines, tabs...
$str =~ s/[\x00-\x1F\x7F-\xFF]/sprintf("\\x%02X", ord($&))/eg;
"$qq$str$qq";
}
#============================================================
package Main::Parser;
#============================================================
use HTML::Stream qw(:funcs);
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = (qw(HTML::Parser));
# Are we inside a preformatter environment?
my $PREcount = 0;
#------------------------------------------------------------
# declaration
#------------------------------------------------------------
# This method is called when a markup declaration has been
# recognized. For typical HTML documents, the only declaration you are
# likely to find is <!DOCTYPE ...>. The initial ``<!'' and ending ``>''
# is not part of the string passed as argument. Comments
# are removed and entities have not been expanded yet.
sub declaration {
my ($self, $decl) = @_;
print '$HTML->io->print(', ::str2perl("<!$decl>"), ");\n";
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# start
#------------------------------------------------------------
# This method is called when a complete start tag has been
# recognized. The first argument is the tag name (in lower case)
# and the second argument is a reference to a hash that contain
# all attributes found within the start tag. The attribute keys
# are converted to lower case. Entities found in the attribute
# values are already expanded.
sub start {
my ($self, $tag, $attr) = @_;
# Bookkeeping:
++$PREcount if ($tag eq 'pre');
# Output:
if (keys %$attr) {
# Output and remember first line, up to open paren:
my $firstline = "\$HTML -> \U$tag\E(";
print $firstline;
# Determine nice indent:
my $indent = ' ' x length($firstline);
$indent =~ s/ {8}/\t/g;
# Output tag params:
my @keys = sort keys %$attr;
my $i;
for ($i = 0; $i < int(@keys); $i++) {
print "\U$keys[$i]\E => ";
print ::str2perl($attr->{$keys[$i]});
print ",\n$indent" unless ($i == (int(@keys)-1));
}
print ");\n";
}
else {
print "\$HTML -> \U$tag\E;\n";
}
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# end
#------------------------------------------------------------
# This method is called when an end tag has been recognized.
# The argument is the lower case tag name.
sub end {
my ($self, $tag) = @_;
print "\$HTML -> _\U$tag\E;\n";
# Bookkeeping:
--$PREcount if ($tag eq 'pre');
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# should_output_whitespace
#------------------------------------------------------------
sub should_output_whitespace {
$::opt_w || ($PREcount > 0);
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# whitespace
#------------------------------------------------------------
sub whitespace {
my $ws = shift;
return if (!$ws);
if ($ws =~ /\A\n*\Z/) {
print "\$HTML -> nl";
print( (length($ws) > 1) ? '('.length($ws).')' : '');
print ";\n";
}
else {
print "\$HTML -> t(", ::str2perl($ws), ");\n";
}
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# text
#------------------------------------------------------------
# This method is called as plain text in the document
# is recognized. The text is passed on unmodified and might contain
# multiple lines. Note that for efficiency reasons entities in the
# text are not expanded. You should call
# HTML::Entities::decode($text) before you process the text any
# further.
sub text {
my ($self, $text) = @_;
# Do nothing if empty string:
return if (!defined($text) or ($text eq ''));
# Unescape HTML:
$text = HTML::Entities::decode($text);
# Break into WHITE* NONWHITE* WHITE*
my ($pre, $in, $dummy, $post) = ($text =~ /\A(\s*)((.|\n)*?)(\s*)\Z/);
# Output leading whitespace:
if ($pre && should_output_whitespace()) {
whitespace($pre);
}
# Output main text:
if (defined($in) && ($in ne '')) {
if (length($in) < 70) { # output as t()
print "\$HTML -> t(", ::str2perl($in), ");\n";
}
else { # output as hereis()
my $hereis = ::str2perl($in, '');
$hereis =~ s/\\n/\n/g;
print "output \$HTML <<EOF;\n";
print $hereis;
print "\nEOF\n";
}
}
# Output trailing whitespace:
if ($post && should_output_whitespace()) {
whitespace($post);
}
1;
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# comment
#------------------------------------------------------------
# This method is called as comments are recognized.
# The leading and trailing ``--'' sequences has been stripped off
# the comment text.
sub comment {
my ($self, $comment) = @_;
# Remove lead/trail single space (we'll put it back, honest):
$comment =~ s/^ //;
$comment =~ s/ $//;
print "\$HTML -> comment(", ::str2perl($comment), ");\n";
}
#============================================================
package main;
#============================================================
#------------------------------------------------------------
# print_header
#------------------------------------------------------------
sub print_header {
print <<EOF;
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
\$HTML = new HTML::Stream \\*STDOUT;
EOF
if ($opt_w) {
print <<EOF;
# You generated this code with "html2perlstream -w", so we turn off
# auto-formatting to make things look right:
\$HTML->auto_format(0);
EOF
}
else {
print <<EOF;
# You generated this code without "html2perlstream -w", so we keep
# auto-formatting on to add some whitespace here and there:
# \$HTML->auto_format(0);
EOF
}
print <<EOF;
# BEGIN GENERATED CODE
EOF
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# print_fooer
#------------------------------------------------------------
sub print_footer {
print <<EOF;
# END GENERATED CODE
1;
EOF
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# usage
#------------------------------------------------------------
sub usage {
print STDERR <<EOF;
html2perlstream version $VERSION by Eryq, Jan 1997, eryq\@zeegee.com.
Usage: html2perlstream [options] [files...]
-d automatically run Perl on output, and diff with input
-w output code to output whitespace verbatim
EOF
exit(-1);
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# do_diff
#------------------------------------------------------------
sub do_diff {
my ($htmlfile, $perlfile) = @_;
my $html2 = "$perlfile.out";
my $diff = "$perlfile.diff";
# Sync up output:
STDOUT->flush;
STDERR->flush;
# Do it!
my $cmd = join(' ', ($^X, (map {"-I$_"} @INC), $perlfile));
# print STDERR "diff command = $cmd\n";
print STDERR " Running code: output in $html2\n";
system "$cmd > $html2";
print STDERR " Doing diff: output in $diff\n";
system "diff $htmlfile $html2 > $diff";
}
#------------------------------------------------------------
# main
#------------------------------------------------------------
sub main {
my $parser = new Main::Parser;
# Usage if no args:
@ARGV or usage();
# Get opts:
getopts "wd";
# Process files:
@ARGV or unshift @ARGV, '-';
my $infile;
while ($infile = shift @ARGV) {
my $outfile = (($infile eq '-') ? '-' : "$infile.pl");
# Trap for bad -d usage:
if ($opt_d and (($infile eq '-') || ($outfile eq '-'))) {
die "Cannot use -d if input is from STDIN\n";
}
# Report:
print STDERR "Converting ", ($infile eq '-' ? '<STDIN>' : $infile),
" to " , ($outfile eq '-' ? '<STDOUT>' : $outfile),
"\n";
# Open input and output:
open INPUT, "<$infile" or die "$infile: $!";
open OUTPUT, ">$outfile" or die "$outfile: $!";
select OUTPUT;
# Header:
print_header();
$parser->parse_file(\*INPUT);
# Footer:
print_footer();
# Close:
close OUTPUT;
close INPUT;
# Do a diff...
do_diff($infile, $outfile) if ($opt_d);
}
print STDERR "Done.\n";
1;
}
exit (&main ? 0 : -1);
#------------------------------------------------------------
1;