1HTML::FormatText(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation  HTML::FormatText(3)
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NAME

6       HTML::FormatText - Format HTML as plaintext
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SYNOPSIS

9        require HTML::TreeBuilder;
10        $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new->parse_file("test.html");
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12        require HTML::FormatText;
13        $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 50);
14        print $formatter->format($tree);
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DESCRIPTION

17       The HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain latin1 text.
18       All character attributes (bold/italic/underline) are ignored.  Format‐
19       ting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.
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21       You might specify the following parameters when constructing the for‐
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24       leftmargin (alias lm)
25           The column of the left margin. The default is 3.
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28           The column of the right margin. The default is 72.
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SEE ALSO

31       HTML::Formatter
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34       Copyright (c) 1995-2002 Gisle Aas, and 2002- Sean M. Burke. All rights
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37       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
38       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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40       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
41       without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of mer‐
42       chantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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AUTHOR

45       Current maintainer: Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
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47       Original author: Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
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51perl v5.8.8                       2004-06-02               HTML::FormatText(3)
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