Re: Subclassing HTML::Parser to support $p->include()

Andy Armstrong <[email protected]> writes:

> On 24 Feb 2006, at 17:46, Terrence Brannon wrote:
> > If you want to stay pure HTML, then do this:
> >
> > <span myparser_action="include" myparser_args="header.html" />
> 
> The syntax was just chosen for conciseness but the actual syntax
> looks like
> 
> <ido:include src="blah.html" />
> 
> I /assumed/ (perhaps mistakenly) that HTML::Parser would be OK with
> arbitrary tag names provided everything was syntactically correct. Is
> that a stupid assumption?

No, that's a completely valid assumption.  HTML::Parser does not care
what the name of the tags are.  This is needed to have any hope of
parsing real-world HTML and it will certainly stay that way.  No need
to worry.

HTML::Parser does treat a few tags (title, script, style, textarea)
specially in that their content are parsed according to different rules
than normal and unknown tags.

--Gisle