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Posted by Adrian on April 18, 2005, 6:53 pm
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Hi,
I've been playing around with a lot of modules but can't find
one that simply represents HTML as text, laying out the tables
so that things appear in approximately the right place on the
page according to table structures etc.. lynx does a good job
of it (eg 'lynx http://groups.google.com' then redirect output
to a file) but surely there's a good perl module around?
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Adrian.
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Posted by Keith Keller on April 18, 2005, 10:28 pm
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> I've been playing around with a lot of modules but can't find
> one that simply represents HTML as text, laying out the tables
> so that things appear in approximately the right place on the
> page according to table structures etc.. lynx does a good job
> of it (eg 'lynx http://groups.google.com' then redirect output
> to a file) but surely there's a good perl module around?
use HTML::FormatText;
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Posted by Adrian on April 18, 2005, 11:33 pm
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Hi Keith,
Thanks for your reply..
Keith Keller wrote:
>
> > I've been playing around with a lot of modules but can't find
> > one that simply represents HTML as text, laying out the tables
> > so that things appear in approximately the right place on the
> > page according to table structures etc.. lynx does a good job
> > of it (eg 'lynx http://groups.google.com' then redirect output
> > to a file) but surely there's a good perl module around?
>
> use HTML::FormatText;
>
I tried HTML::FormatText but it doesn't seem to render tables
correctly (or at all).. Compare the output from HTML::FormatText
to that of lynx when dealing with basic HTML tables..
eg: http://www.uottawa.ca/student/infoservice/nav_e.html
The HTML::FormatText just sticks any table elements (TD or TR)
on a new line.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Adrian.
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Posted by Rudi on April 19, 2005, 9:57 pm
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Adrian,
not a solution, but maybe a starting point:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/09/17/perlcookbook.html
I just came across the same issue.
Rudi
Adrian wrote:
....
> The HTML::FormatText just sticks any table elements (TD or TR)
> on a new line.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian.
>
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