NAME

HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as plaintext

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.

SEE ALSO

HTML::Formatter

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995-2002 Gisle Aas, and 2002- Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved.

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

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

Current maintainer: Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>

Original author: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>