HTML::Tidy(3pm) 					User Contributed Perl Documentation					   HTML::Tidy(3pm)

NAME

       HTML::Tidy - (X)HTML validation in a Perl object

VERSION

       Version 1.50

SYNOPSIS

	   use HTML::Tidy;

	   my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new( {config_file => 'path/to/config'} );
	   $tidy->ignore( type => TIDY_WARNING, typed => TIDY_INFO );
	   $tidy->parse( "foo.html", $contents_of_foo );

	   for my $message ( $tidy->messages ) {
	       print $message->as_string;
	   }

DESCRIPTION

       "HTML::Tidy" is an HTML checker in a handy dandy object.  It's meant as a replacement for HTML::Lint.  If you're currently an HTML::Lint
       user looking to migrate, see the section "Converting from HTML::Lint".

EXPORTS

       Message types "TIDY_ERROR", "TIDY_WARNING" and "TIDY_INFO".

       Everything else is an object method.

METHODS

   new()
       Create an HTML::Tidy object.

	   my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new();

       Optionally you can give a hashref of configuration parms.

	   my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new( {config_file => 'path/to/tidy.cfg'} );

       This configuration file will be read and used when you clean or parse an HTML file.

       You can also pass options directly to libtidy.

	   my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new( {
					   output_xhtml => 1,
					   tidy_mark => 0,
				       } );

       See <http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html> or "tidy -help-config" for the list of options supported by libtidy.

       The following options are not supported by "HTML::Tidy": quiet

   messages()
       Returns the messages accumulated.

   clear_messages()
       Clears the list of messages, in case you want to print and clear, print and clear.  If you don't clear the messages, then each time you
       call parse() you'll be accumulating more in the list.

   ignore( parm => value [, parm => value ] )
       Specify types of messages to ignore.  Note that the ignore flags must be set before calling "parse()".  You can call "ignore()" as many
       times as necessary to set up all your restrictions; the options will stack up.

       o   type => TIDY_INFO|TIDY_WARNING|TIDY_ERROR

	   Specifies the type of messages you want to ignore, either info or warnings or errors.  If you wanted, you could call ignore on all
	   three and get no messages at all.

	       $tidy->ignore( type => TIDY_WARNING );

       o   text => qr/regex/

       o   text => [ qr/regex1/, qr/regex2/, ... ]

	   Checks the text of the message against the specified regex or regexes, and ignores the message if there's a match.  The value for the
	   text parm may be either a regex, or a reference to a list of regexes.

	       $tidy->ignore( text => qr/DOCTYPE/ );
	       $tidy->ignore( text => [ qr/unsupported/, qr/proprietary/i ] );

   parse( $filename, $str [, $str...] )
       Parses a string, or list of strings, that make up a single HTML file.

       The $filename parm is only used as an identifier for your use.  The file is not actually read and opened.

       Returns true if all went OK, or false if there was some problem calling tidy, or parsing tidy's output.

   clean( $str [, $str...] )
       Cleans a string, or list of strings, that make up a single HTML file.

       Returns the cleaned string as a single string.

INSTALLING LIBTIDY

       HTML::Tidy requires that "libtidy" be installed on your system.	You can obtain libtidy through your distribution's package manager (make
       sure you install the development package with headers), or from the libtidy website at <http://tidy.sourceforge.net/src/tidy_src.tgz>.

CONVERTING FROM ";HTML::Lint"
       HTML::Tidy is different from HTML::Lint in a number of crucial ways.

       o   It's not pure Perl

	   "HTML::Tidy" is mostly a happy wrapper around libtidy.

       o   The real work is done by someone else

	   Changes to libtidy may come down the pipe that I don't have control over.  That's the price we pay for having it do a darn good job.

       o   It's no longer bundled with its "Test::" counterpart

	   HTML::Lint came bundled with "Test::HTML::Lint", but Test::HTML::Tidy is a separate distribution.  This saves the people who don't want
	   the "Test::" framework from pulling it in, and all its prerequisite modules.

BUGS &; FEEDBACK
       Please report any bugs or feature requests at the issue tracker on github http://github.com/petdance/html-tidy/issues
       <http://github.com/petdance/html-tidy/issues>.  I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I
       make changes.

       Please do NOT use <http://rt.cpan.org>.

SUPPORT

       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

	   perldoc HTML::Tidy

       You can also look for information at:

       o   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

	   http://annocpan.org/dist/HTML-Tidy <http://annocpan.org/dist/HTML-Tidy>

       o   CPAN Ratings

	   http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/HTML-Tidy <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/HTML-Tidy>

       o   HTML::Tidy's issue queue at github

	   http://github.com/petdance/html-tidy/issues <http://github.com/petdance/html-tidy/issues>

       o   Search CPAN

	   http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Tidy <http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Tidy>

       o   Subversion source code repository

	   http://github.com/petdance/html-tidy <http://github.com/petdance/html-tidy>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       Thanks to Jonathan Rockway and Robert Bachmann for contributions.

AUTHOR

       Andy Lester, "<andy at petdance.com>"

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2005-2010 by Andy Lester

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.1 or,
       at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-11-15							   HTML::Tidy(3pm)