I just uploaded HTML::TokeParser::Simple 3.14 and it should be on a CPAN mirror soon. This is a moderately important upgrade, so it should have been updated more than just .01, but who can turn down PI?
Change log:
Added POD tests Converted to Module::Build All classes now state which methods they override Carp is now only loaded on demand peek() now allows you to peek at the next tokens
I particularly like the peek() method. This allows you to "peek" at where you are in the document without affecting the state of the parser. This is very helpful for debugging. I got the idea after suggesting it on Perl Monks.
The feature I tried to add, but failed, was optional string overloading. I wanted you to be able to do this:
my $parser = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new(
string => $html,
overload => 1,
);
while (my $token = $parser->get_token) {
print $token;
}
That seems rather straightforward. I was "eval"ing overload but it failed miserably because bless $token, $class was triggering the stringification. I tried to munge the stringification method to handle this properly, but every time I did the code was getting uglier and uglier. Part of this deals with how the as_is method is overloaded. I also needed to ensure that I was removing overloading if a new parser was instantiated and that made it worse. I think I know what went wrong and I think I can fix it but for now it's a feature I've left out because no one has ever asked for it.