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6 HTML::FormatText::Html2text - format HTML as plain text using html2text
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9 use HTML::FormatText::Html2text;
10 $text = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->format_file ($filename);
11 $text = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->format_string ($html_string);
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13 $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->new;
14 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
15 $text = $formatter->format ($tree);
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18 "HTML::FormatText::Html2text" turns HTML into plain text using the
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21 <http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/>
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23 The module interface is compatible with formatters like
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26 See "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions and options,
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29 "input_charset"
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31 latin-1 only, though the Debian extended "html2ext" interprets a
32 "<meta>" charset directive in the HTML header.
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34 Various "&" style named or numbered entities are recognised and
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38 "output_charset"
39 If set to "ascii" or "ANSI_X3.4-1968" (both case-insensitive) the
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43 If set to "UTF-8" then Debian extension "-utf8" option is used
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46 Apart from this there's no control over the output charset.
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49 HTML::FormatExternal, html2text(1)
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52 <http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html>
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55 Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde
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57 HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
58 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
59 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at
60 your option) any later version.
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62 HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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67 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
68 with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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