package HTML::Element; # $Id: Element.pm,v 1.39 1998/03/26 20:30:13 aas Exp $ =head1 NAME HTML::Element - Class for objects that represent HTML elements =head1 SYNOPSIS require HTML::Element; $a = new HTML::Element 'a', href => 'http://www.oslonett.no/'; $a->push_content("Oslonett AS"); $tag = $a->tag; $tag = $a->starttag; $tag = $a->endtag; $ref = $a->attr('href'); $links = $a->extract_links(); print $a->as_HTML; =head1 DESCRIPTION Objects of the HTML::Element class can be used to represent elements of HTML. These objects have attributes and content. The content is an array of text segments and other HTML::Element objects. Thus a tree of HTML::Element objects as nodes can represent the syntax tree for a HTML document. The following methods are available: =over 4 =cut use strict; use Carp (); use HTML::Entities (); use vars qw($VERSION %emptyElement %optionalEndTag %linkElements %boolean_attr ); $VERSION = sprintf("%d.%02d", q$Revision: 1.39 $ =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)/); sub Version { $VERSION; } # Elements that does not have corresponding end tags (i.e. are empty) %emptyElement = map { $_ => 1 } qw(base link meta isindex img br hr wbr input area param ); %optionalEndTag = map { $_ => 1 } qw(p li dt dd option); # th tr td); # Elements that might contain links and the name of the link attribute %linkElements = ( body => 'background', base => 'href', a => 'href', img => [qw(src lowsrc usemap)], # lowsrc is a Netscape invention form => 'action', input => 'src', 'link' => 'href', # need quoting since link is a perl builtin frame => 'src', applet => 'codebase', area => 'href', ); # These attributes are normally printed without showing the "='value'". # This representation works as long as no element has more than one # attribute like this. %boolean_attr = ( area => 'nohref', dir => 'compact', dl => 'compact', hr => 'noshade', img => 'ismap', input => { checked => 1, readonly => 1, disabled => 1 }, menu => 'compact', ol => 'compact', option => 'selected', 'select'=> 'multiple', td => 'nowrap', th => 'nowrap', ul => 'compact', ); =item $h = HTML::Element->new('tag', 'attrname' => 'value',...) The object constructor. Takes a tag name as argument. Optionally, allows you to specify initial attributes at object creation time. =cut # # An HTML::Element is represented by blessed hash reference. Key-names # not starting with '_' are reserved for the SGML attributes of the element. # The following special keys are used: # # '_tag': The tag name # '_parent': A reference to the HTML::Element above (when forming a tree) # '_pos': The current position (a reference to a HTML::Element) is # where inserts will be placed (look at the insert_element method) # # Example: Gisle's photo is represented like this: # # bless { # _tag => 'img', # src => 'gisle.jpg', # alt => "Gisle's photo", # }, HTML::Element; # sub new { my $class = shift; my $tag = shift; Carp::croak("No tag") unless defined $tag or length $tag; my $self = bless { _tag => lc $tag }, $class; my($attr, $val); while (($attr, $val) = splice(@_, 0, 2)) { $val = $attr unless defined $val; $self->{lc $attr} = $val; } if ($tag eq 'html') { $self->{'_pos'} = undef; } $self; } =item $h->tag() Returns (optionally sets) the tag name for the element. The tag is always converted to lower case. =cut sub tag { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->{'_tag'} = lc $_[0]; } else { $self->{'_tag'}; } } =item $h->starttag() Returns the complete start tag for the element. Including leading "<", trailing ">" and attributes. =cut sub starttag { my $self = shift; my $name = $self->{'_tag'}; my $tag = "<\U$name"; for (sort keys %$self) { next if /^_/; my $val = $self->{$_}; if ($_ eq $val && exists($boolean_attr{$name}) && (ref($boolean_attr{$name}) ? $boolean_attr{$name}{$_} : $boolean_attr{$name} eq $_)) { $tag .= " \U$_"; } else { if ($val !~ /^\d+$/) { # count number of " compared to number of ' if (($val =~ tr/\"/\"/) > ($val =~ tr/\'/\'/)) { # use single quotes around the attribute value HTML::Entities::encode_entities($val, "&'>"); $val = qq('$val'); } else { HTML::Entities::encode_entities($val, '&">'); $val = qq{"$val"}; } } $tag .= qq{ \U$_\E=$val}; } } "$tag>"; } =item $h->endtag() Returns the complete end tag. Includes leading "". =cut sub endtag { "{'_tag'}>"; } =item $h->parent([$newparent]) Returns (optionally sets) the parent for this element. =cut sub parent { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $self->{'_parent'} = $_[0]; } else { $self->{'_parent'}; } } =item $h->implicit([$bool]) Returns (optionally sets) the implicit attribute. This attribute is used to indicate that the element was not originally present in the source, but was inserted in order to conform to HTML strucure. =cut sub implicit { shift->attr('_implicit', @_); } =item $h->is_inside('tag',...) Returns true if this tag is contained inside one of the specified tags. =cut sub is_inside { my $self = shift; my $p = $self; while (defined $p) { my $ptag = $p->{'_tag'}; for (@_) { return 1 if $ptag eq $_; } $p = $p->{'_parent'}; } 0; } =item $h->pos() Returns (and optionally sets) the current position. The position is a reference to a HTML::Element object that is part of the tree that has the current object as root. This restriction is not enforced when setting pos(), but unpredictable things will happen if this is not true. =cut sub pos { my $self = shift; my $pos = $self->{'_pos'}; if (@_) { $self->{'_pos'} = $_[0]; } return $pos if defined($pos); $self; } =item $h->attr('attr', [$value]) Returns (and optionally sets) the value of some attribute. =cut sub attr { my $self = shift; my $attr = lc shift; my $old = $self->{$attr}; if (@_) { $self->{$attr} = $_[0]; } $old; } =item $h->content() Returns the content of this element. The content is represented as a reference to an array of text segments and references to other HTML::Element objects. =cut sub content { shift->{'_content'}; } =item $h->is_empty() Returns true if there is no content. =cut sub is_empty { my $self = shift; !exists($self->{'_content'}) || !@{$self->{'_content'}}; } =item $h->insert_element($element, $implicit) Inserts a new element at current position and updates pos() to point to the inserted element. Returns $element. =cut sub insert_element { my($self, $tag, $implicit) = @_; my $e; if (ref $tag) { $e = $tag; $tag = $e->tag; } else { $e = new HTML::Element $tag; } $e->{'_implicit'} = 1 if $implicit; my $pos = $self->{'_pos'}; $pos = $self unless defined $pos; $pos->push_content($e); unless ($emptyElement{$tag}) { $self->{'_pos'} = $e; $pos = $e; } $pos; } =item $h->push_content($element_or_text,...) Adds to the content of the element. The content should be a text segment (scalar) or a reference to a HTML::Element object. =cut sub push_content { my $self = shift; $self->{'_content'} = [] unless exists $self->{'_content'}; my $content = $self->{'_content'}; for (@_) { if (ref $_) { $_->{'_parent'} = $self; push(@$content, $_); } else { # The current element is a text segment if (@$content && !ref $content->[-1]) { # last content element is also text segment $content->[-1] .= $_; } else { push(@$content, $_); } } } $self; } =item $h->delete_content() Clears the content. =cut sub delete_content { my $self = shift; for (@{$self->{'_content'}}) { $_->delete if ref $_; } delete $self->{'_content'}; $self; } =item $h->delete() Frees memory associated with the element and all children. This is needed because perl's reference counting does not work since we use circular references. =cut #' sub delete { $_[0]->delete_content; delete $_[0]->{'_parent'}; delete $_[0]->{'_pos'}; $_[0] = undef; } =item $h->traverse(\&callback, [$ignoretext]) Traverse the element and all of its children. For each node visited, the callback routine is called with the node, a startflag and the depth as arguments. If the $ignoretext parameter is true, then the callback will not be called for text content. The flag is 1 when we enter a node and 0 when we leave the node. If the returned value from the callback is false then we will not traverse the children. =cut sub traverse { my($self, $callback, $ignoretext, $depth) = @_; $depth ||= 0; if (&$callback($self, 1, $depth)) { for (@{$self->{'_content'}}) { if (ref $_) { $_->traverse($callback, $ignoretext, $depth+1); } else { &$callback($_, 1, $depth+1) unless $ignoretext; } } &$callback($self, 0, $depth) unless $emptyElement{$self->{'_tag'}}; } $self; } =item $h->extract_links([@wantedTypes]) Returns links found by traversing the element and all of its children. The return value is a reference to an array. Each element of the array is an array with 2 values; the link value and a reference to the corresponding element. You might specify that you just want to extract some types of links. For instance if you only want to extract and links you might code it like this: for (@{ $e->extract_links(qw(a img)) }) { ($link, $linkelem) = @$_; ... } =cut sub extract_links { my $self = shift; my %wantType; @wantType{map { lc $_ } @_} = (1) x @_; my $wantType = scalar(@_); my @links; $self->traverse( sub { my($self, $start, $depth) = @_; return 1 unless $start; my $tag = $self->{'_tag'}; return 1 if $wantType && !$wantType{$tag}; my $attr = $linkElements{$tag}; return 1 unless defined $attr; $attr = [$attr] unless ref $attr; for (@$attr) { my $val = $self->attr($_); push(@links, [$val, $self]) if defined $val; } 1; }, 'ignoretext'); \@links; } =item $h->dump() Prints the element and all its children to STDOUT. Mainly useful for debugging. The structure of the document is shown by indentation (no end tags). =cut sub dump { my $self = shift; my $depth = shift || 0; print STDERR " " x $depth; print STDERR $self->starttag, "\n"; for (@{$self->{'_content'}}) { if (ref $_) { $_->dump($depth+1); } else { print STDERR " " x ($depth + 1); print STDERR qq{"$_"\n}; } } } =item $h->as_HTML() Returns a string (the HTML document) that represents the element and its children. =cut sub as_HTML { my $self = shift; my @html = (); $self->traverse( sub { my($node, $start, $depth) = @_; if (ref $node) { my $tag = $node->tag; if ($start) { push(@html, $node->starttag); } elsif (not ($emptyElement{$tag} or $optionalEndTag{$tag})) { push(@html, $node->endtag); } } else { # simple text content HTML::Entities::encode_entities($node, "<>&"); push(@html, $node); } } ); join('', @html, "\n"); } sub format { my($self, $formatter) = @_; unless (defined $formatter) { require HTML::FormatText; $formatter = new HTML::FormatText; } $formatter->format($self); } 1; __END__ =back =head1 BUGS If you want to free the memory assosiated with a tree built of HTML::Element nodes then you will have to delete it explicitly. The reason for this is that perl currently has no proper garbage collector, but depends on reference counts in the objects. This scheme fails because the parse tree contains circular references (parents have references to their children and children have a reference to their parent). =head1 SEE ALSO L =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut