Great! Can you tell me who to get it using PPM? I'm running on Windows,
and have a very difficult time doing the build, but PPM has made installing
packages much, much easier. Using PPM, I'm showing the latest version as
2.25.
Thx,
Tac
----- Original Message -----
From: Gisle Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 6:08 PM
Subject: HTML-Parser-3.00
> After 6 weeks, 17 alpha releases and 7 betas we have now released
> HTML-Parser-3.00 on CPAN. We would like to thank the CPAN testers
> team and especially Paul Schinder who helped us avoid many platform
> compatibility problems.
>
> HTML-Parser-3.00 is a complete rewrite of the HTML::Parser core in C
> with XS bindings. The new parser is significantly faster and has new
> features that allow better control over HTML and XML document parsing.
> The speedup when compared to HTML-Parser-2.25 is between 3x and 50x
> depending on what you are doing.
>
> The new parser interface is completely compatible with
> HTML-Parser-2.25, but some parts of an HTML document are
> recognized differently:
>
> - Anything inside <script> and <style> is returned as cdata text.
> HTML-Parser-2.25 recognizes markup within these sections.
> The same is true for the depreciated <xmp> and <plaintext> tags.
>
> - Nearly any characters are allowed in tag and attribute names.
> Previously, strange characters in names caused tags to be
> parsed as text. This behaviour can be overridden to enforce strict
> tag and attribute naming.
>
> - Processing instruction (<?...> or <?...?>) are reported via the
> process event handler.
>
> New features include:
>
> - Direct callbacks to avoid Perl's slower method calls.
>
> - Array storage of element information to avoid callbacks completely.
>
> - The arguments passed to callbacks or arrays are separately
> selectable for each element type.
> This allows more flexibility and faster argument preparation.
> It also allows more argument types to be added later without
> interfering with existing programs.
>
> - The byte positions of tokens within an element can be reported.
> This allows direct editing of the token with substr() instead of
> having to guess where the token is located.
>
> - Callbacks can abort parsing.
>
> - Marked sections are recognized and applied, but not reported.
>
> - XML mode.
>
> - Working examples are provided to demonstrate the new features.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --
> Michael A. Chase and Gisle Aas
