Original Message:
>From: gisle aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: tkil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: "lwp list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: requesting pages with resolved links
>Date: 01/21/00 02:54:01
>Tkil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> looking over my solution to this small question, i was left curious
>> about something: is there any particular reason why the "declaration"
>> method in HTML::Parser doesn't have an $origtext argument, other than
>> the fact that it's easier than most to reconstruct?
>
>No. I just ended up that way.
>
>> i've often found myself in a situation where i want to mostly do a
>> "pass-through" parser, modifying only certain tags, certain links,
>> turning pass-through on and off, etc. the $origtext parameters make
>> this quete painless (and i suspect the new XS modules make it even
>> easier) but this anomaly happened to catch my attention tonight.
>
>In the old parser modules we had HTML::Filter to help you with this
>stuff, but HTML-Parser-3.xx has better ways. Here you would simply
>set up a 'default' handler that pass through the text unchanged.
>
>This is the comment stripper example:
>
> use HTML::Parser;
> HTML::Parser->new(default_h => [sub { print shift }, 'text'],
> comment_h => [""],
> )->parse_file(shift || die) || die $!;
>
>
>Regards,
>Gisle
>
