The HTML::FormatText is a formatter that outputs plain latin1 text. All character attributes (bold/italic/underline) are ignored. Formatting of HTML tables and forms is not implemented.
The text2html function marks up plain text as HTML. By default it expands tabs and converts HTML metacharacters into the corresponding entities. More complicated transformations, such as splitting the text into paragraphs or marking up bulleted lists, can be carried out by setting the appropriate options.
The HTML::HeadParser is a specialized (and lightweight) HTML::Parser that will only parse the <HEAD>...</HEAD> section of an HTML document. The parse() method will return a FALSE value as soon as some <BODY> element or body text are found, and should not be called again after this. The HTML::HeadParser keeps a reference to a header object, and the parser will update this header object as the various elements of the <HEAD> section of the HTML document are recognized.
HTML::LinkExtor is an HTML parser that extracts links from an HTML document. The HTML::LinkExtor is a subclass of HTML::Parser. This means that the document should be given to the parser by calling the $p->parse() or $p->parse_file() methods.
HTML::Mason is a perl-based web site development and delivery engine. This document is designed to answer questions that arise when using HTML::Mason to develop new and convert existing applications.
The ApacheHandler object links Mason to Apache, running components in response to HTTP requests. It is controlled primarily through parameters to the new() constructor. handle_request() is not a user method, but rather is called from the HTML::Mason::handler() routine in handler.pl.
The component API is primarily useful for introspection, e.g.
what component called me'' or
does the next component take a certain argument''. You can build complex Mason sites without ever dealing directly with a component object.
