NAME¶

HTML::FormatText::Elinks - format HTML as plain text using elinks

SYNOPSIS¶

 use HTML::FormatText::Elinks;
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Elinks->format_file ($filename);
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Elinks->format_string ($html_string);
 $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Elinks->new (rightmargin => 60);
 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
 $text = $formatter->format ($tree);

DESCRIPTION¶

"HTML::FormatText::Elinks" turns HTML into plain text using the "elinks" program.

The module interface is compatible with formatters like "HTML::FormatText", but all parsing etc is done by elinks.

See "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions and options, all of which are supported by "HTML::FormatText::Elinks" with the following caveats.

"input_charset"

As of Elinks 0.12pre2 (Oct 2008) has various unibyte input charsets but the only multibyte input charset accepted is utf-8. You could recode others to utf-8 if necessary (but this module doesn't attempt to do that automatically).

Elinks can be a little picky about its charset names. This module attempts to ease that by for instance turning "latin-1" (not accepted) into "latin1" (which is accepted). A full name "ISO-8859-1" etc is accepted too.

SEE ALSO¶

HTML::FormatExternal, elinks(1)

HOME PAGE¶

<http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html>

LICENSE¶

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde

HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.