NAME HTML::Acid - Reformat HTML fragment to strict criteria VERSION This document describes HTML::Acid version 0.0.2 SYNOPSIS use HTML::Acid; my $acid = HTML::Acid->new; return $acid->burn($html) DESCRIPTION Fragments of HTML returned by a rich text editor tend to be not entirely standards compliant. "img" tags tend not to be closed. Paragraphs breaks might be represented by double "br" tags rather than "p" tags. Of course we also need to do all the XSS avoidance an HTML clean up routine would, such as controlling "href" tags, removing javascript and inline styling. Furthermore what one often wants is not simply a standards compliant cleaned up version of the input HTML. Sometimes one wants to know that the HTML conforms to a much tighter standard, as then it will be easier to style. So this module, given a fragment of HTML, will rewrite it into a very restricted subset of XHTML. The default dialect has the following properties. * Documents consist entirely of "p" elements and "h3" elements. * Every header will have "id" attribute automatically generated from the header contents. * Every paragraph may consist of text, "a" elements, "img" elements, "strong" and "em" elements. * Anchors must have an "href" attribute referring to an internal URL. They may also have a "title" attribute. * Images must have "src", "title", "alt", "height" and "width" attributes. The "src" attribute must match the same regular expression as "href". If any of these tags are missing the image is replaced by the contents of the "alt" attribute, so long as it consists only of alphanumeric characters, spaces, full stops and commas. Otherwise the image is removed. * All other tags must have no attributes and may only contain text. * Double "br" elements in the source will be interpreted as paragraph breaks. INTERFACE new This constructor takes a number of optional named parameters. *url_regex* This is a regular expression that controls what "href" and "src" tags are permitted. It defaults to an expression that restricts access to internal absolute paths with an optional sub-reference. *tag_hierarchy* This is a hash reference that for each supported tag specifies what the containing tag must be. Standards based HTML is not as strict as this. This defaults to the value returned by the "default_tag_hierarchy" method. *img_height_default* If set this creates a default height value for all images. If not set images without height attributes will be rejected. *img_width_default* If set this creates a default width value for all images. If not set images without width attributes will be rejected. *text_manip* If set this must be subroutine reference. It takes text (and the "alt" attribute from invalid images) and what is returned will be used instead. burn This method takes the input HTML as an input and returns the cleaned up HTML. default_tag_hierarchy This is a class method that returns the default tag hierarchy. So if you want to add support for a tag you can use a modified copy of the output when setting up the HTML::Acid instance. The default mapping is as follows: { h3 => '', p => '', a => 'p', img => 'p', em => 'p', strong => 'p', } CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT HTML::Acid requires no configuration files or environment variables. DEPENDENCIES This module works by subclassing HTML::Parser. Also it assumes that the input will be in utf8 format, that is it sets the *utf8_mode* flag on the HTML::Parser constructor. INCOMPATIBILITIES None reported. TO DO * Sooner or later a little more flexibility in handling attributes will be required. * I think this module could do with an XS back-end for a speed up. BUGS AND LIMITATIONS No bugs have been reported. Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-html-acid@rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . SEE ALSO There are many other modules that do something similar. Of those I think the most complete is HTML::StripScripts::Parser. You can also see HTML::Declaw, HTML::Clean, HTML::Defang, HTML::Restrict, HTML::Scrubber, HTML::Laundary, HTML::Detoxifier, Marpa::HTML, HTML::Tidy. People also often refer to HTML::Santitizer. AUTHOR Nicholas Bamber "" LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2010, Nicholas Bamber "". All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. 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