WebService::CIA::Parser(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			      WebService::CIA::Parser(3pm)

NAME

       WebService::CIA::Parser - Parse pages from the CIA World Factbook

SYNOPSIS

	 use WebService::CIA::Parser;
	 my $parser = WebService::CIA::Parser->new;
	 my $data = $parser->parse($string);

DESCRIPTION

       WebService::CIA::Parser takes a string of HTML and parses it. It will only give sensible output if the string is the HTML for a page whose
       URL matches "https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/[a-z]{2}.html"

       This parsing is somewhat fragile, since it assumes a certain page structure.  It'll work just as long as the CIA don't choose to alter
       their pages.

METHODS

       "new"
	   Creates a new WebService::CIA::Parser object. It takes no arguments.

       "parse($html)"
	   Parses a string of HTML take from the CIA World Factbook. It takes a single string as its argument and returns a hashref of fields and
	   values.

	   The values are stripped of all HTML. "<br>" tags are replaced by newlines.

	   It also creates four extra fields: "URL", "URL - Print", "URL - Flag", and "URL - Map" which are the URLs of the country's Factbook
	   page, the printable version of that page, a GIF map of the country, and a GIF flag of the country respectively.

EXAMPLE

	 use WebService::CIA::Parser;
	 use LWP::Simple qw(get);

	 $html = get(
	   "https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/uk.html"
	 );
	 $parser = WebService::CIA::Parser->new;
	 $data = $parser->parse($html);
	 print $data->{"Population"};

AUTHOR

       Ian Malpass (ian-cpan@indecorous.com)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2003-2007, Ian Malpass

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       The CIA World Factbook's copyright information page (<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/contributor_copy-
       right.html>) states:

	 The Factbook is in the public domain. Accordingly, it may be copied
	 freely without permission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

SEE ALSO

       WebService::CIA

perl v5.8.8							    2008-02-04					      WebService::CIA::Parser(3pm)