# # spec file for package perl-HTML-SimpleParse # # Copyright (c) 2019 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany. # # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed # upon. The license for this file, and modifications and additions to the # file, is the same license as for the pristine package itself (unless the # license for the pristine package is not an Open Source License, in which # case the license is the MIT License). An "Open Source License" is a # license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9) # published by the Open Source Initiative. # Please submit bugfixes or comments via https://bugs.opensuse.org/ # Name: perl-HTML-SimpleParse Version: 0.12 Release: 0 Provides: HTML-SimpleParse Conflicts: perlmod Url: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?HTML::SimpleParse Summary: a bare-bones HTML parser License: Artistic-1.0 Group: Development/Libraries/Perl Source: HTML-SimpleParse-%{version}.tar.gz Source100: README.md BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build %{perl_requires} BuildRequires: perl BuildRequires: perl-macros BuildArch: noarch %description This is the HTML::SimpleParse module. It is a bare-bones HTML parser, similar to HTML::Parser, but with a couple important distinctions: First, HTML::Parser knows which tags can contain other tags, which start tags have corresponding end tags, which tags can exist only in the
portion of the document, and so forth. HTML::SimpleParse does not know any of these things. It just finds tags and text in the HTML you give it, it does not care about the specific content of these tags (though it does distiguish between different _types_ of tags, such as comments, starting tags like , ending tags like , and so on). Second, HTML::SimpleParse does not create a hierarchical tree of HTML content, but rather a simple linear list. It does not pay any attention to balancing start tags with corresponding end tags, or which pairs of tags are inside other pairs of tags. Because of these characteristics, you can make a very effective HTML filter by sub-classing HTML::SimpleParse. Authors: -------- Ken Williams