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1 package HTML::Element::Library;
2
3 use 5.006001;
4 use strict;
5 use warnings;
6
7
8 our $DEBUG = 0;
9 #our $DEBUG = 1;
10
11 use Array::Group qw(:all);
12 use Carp qw(confess);
13 use Data::Dumper;
14 use HTML::Element;
15 use List::Util qw(first);
16 use List::MoreUtils qw/:all/;
17 use Params::Validate qw(:all);
18 use Scalar::Listify;
19 #use Tie::Cycle;
20 use List::Rotation::Cycle;
21
22 our %EXPORT_TAGS = ( 'all' => [ qw() ] );
23 our @EXPORT_OK = ( @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{'all'} } );
24 our @EXPORT = qw();
25
26
27
28 our $VERSION = '3.53';
29
30
31
32 # Preloaded methods go here.
33
34 # https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=44105
35 sub HTML::Element::fillinform {
36
37 my ($tree, $hashref)=@_;
38
39 use HTML::FillInForm;
40 my $html = $tree->as_HTML;
41 my $new_html = HTML::FillInForm->fill(\$html, $hashref);
42
43 }
44
45 sub HTML::Element::siblings {
46 my $element = shift;
47 my $p = $element->parent;
48 return () unless $p;
49 $p->content_list;
50 }
51
52 sub HTML::Element::defmap {
53 my($tree,$attr,$hashref,$debug)=@_;
54
55 while (my ($k, $v) = (each %$hashref)) {
56 warn "defmap looks for ($attr => $k)" if $debug;
57 my $found = $tree->look_down($attr => $k);
58 if ($found) {
59 warn "($attr => $k) was found.. replacing with '$v'" if $debug;
60 $found->replace_content( $v );
61 }
62 }
63
64 }
65
66
67 sub HTML::Element::hash_map {
68 my $container = shift;
69
70 my %p = validate(@_, {
71 hash => { type => HASHREF },
72 to_attr => 1,
73 excluding => { type => ARRAYREF , default => [] },
74 debug => { default => 0 },
75 });
76
77 warn 'The container tag is ', $container->tag if $p{debug} ;
78 warn 'hash' . Dumper($p{hash}) if $p{debug} ;
79 warn 'at_under' . Dumper(\@_) if $p{debug} ;
80
81 my @same_as = $container->look_down( $p{to_attr} => qr/.+/ ) ;
82
83 warn 'Found ' . scalar(@same_as) . ' nodes' if $p{debug} ;
84
85
86 for my $same_as (@same_as) {
87 my $attr_val = $same_as->attr($p{to_attr}) ;
88 if (first { $attr_val eq $_ } @{$p{excluding}}) {
89 warn "excluding $attr_val" if $p{debug} ;
90 next;
91 }
92 warn "processing $attr_val" if $p{debug} ;
93 $same_as->replace_content( $p{hash}->{$attr_val} ) ;
94 }
95
96 }
97
98 sub HTML::Element::hashmap {
99 my ($container, $attr_name, $hashref, $excluding, $debug) = @_;
100
101 $excluding ||= [] ;
102
103 $container->hash_map(hash => $hashref,
104 to_attr => $attr_name,
105 excluding => $excluding,
106 debug => $debug);
107
108 }
109
110
111 sub HTML::Element::passover {
112 my ($tree, @to_preserve) = @_;
113
114 warn "ARGS: my ($tree, @to_preserve)" if $DEBUG;
115 warn $tree->as_HTML(undef, ' ') if $DEBUG;
116
117 my $exodus = $tree->look_down(id => $to_preserve[0]);
118
119 warn "E: $exodus" if $DEBUG;
120
121 my @s = HTML::Element::siblings($exodus);
122
123 for my $s (@s) {
124 next unless ref $s;
125 if (first { $s->attr('id') eq $_ } @to_preserve) {
126 ;
127 } else {
128 $s->delete;
129 }
130 }
131
132 return $exodus; # Goodbye Egypt! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover
133
134 }
135
136 sub HTML::Element::sibdex {
137
138 my $element = shift;
139 firstidx { $_ eq $element } $element->siblings
140
141 }
142
143 sub HTML::Element::addr { goto &HTML::Element::sibdex }
144
145 sub HTML::Element::replace_content {
146 my $elem = shift;
147 $elem->delete_content;
148 $elem->push_content(@_);
149 }
150
151 sub HTML::Element::wrap_content {
152 my($self, $wrap) = @_;
153 my $content = $self->content;
154 if (ref $content) {
155 $wrap->push_content(@$content);
156 @$content = ($wrap);
157 }
158 else {
159 $self->push_content($wrap);
160 }
161 $wrap;
162 }
163
164 sub HTML::Element::Library::super_literal {
165 my($text) = @_;
166
167 HTML::Element->new('~literal', text => $text);
168 }
169
170
171 sub HTML::Element::position {
172 # Report coordinates by chasing addr's up the
173 # HTML::ElementSuper tree. We know we've reached
174 # the top when a) there is no parent, or b) the
175 # parent is some HTML::Element unable to report
176 # it's position.
177 my $p = shift;
178 my @pos;
179 while ($p) {
180 my $a = $p->addr;
181 unshift(@pos, $a) if defined $a;
182 $p = $p->parent;
183 }
184 @pos;
185 }
186
187
188 sub HTML::Element::content_handler {
189 my ($tree, %content_hash) = @_;
190
191 for my $k (keys %content_hash) {
192 $tree->set_child_content(id => $k, $content_hash{$k});
193 }
194
195
196 }
197
198
199 sub make_counter {
200 my $i = 1;
201 sub {
202 shift() . ':' . $i++
203 }
204 }
205
206
207 sub HTML::Element::iter {
208 my ($tree, $p, @data) = @_;
209
210 # warn 'P: ' , $p->attr('id') ;
211 # warn 'H: ' , $p->as_HTML;
212
213 # my $id_incr = make_counter;
214 my @item = map {
215 my $new_item = clone $p;
216 $new_item->replace_content($_);
217 $new_item;
218 } @data;
219
220 $p->replace_with(@item);
221
222 }
223
224
225 sub HTML::Element::iter2 {
226
227 my $tree = shift;
228
229 #warn "INPUT TO TABLE2: ", Dumper \@_;
230
231 my %p = validate(
232 @_, {
233 wrapper_ld => { default => ['_tag' => 'dl'] },
234 wrapper_data => 1,
235 wrapper_proc => { default => undef },
236 item_ld => { default => sub {
237 my $tree = shift;
238 [
239 $tree->look_down('_tag' => 'dt'),
240 $tree->look_down('_tag' => 'dd')
241 ];
242 }
243 },
244 item_data => { default => sub { my ($wrapper_data) = @_;
245 shift(@{$wrapper_data}) ;
246 }},
247 item_proc => {
248 default => sub {
249 my ($item_elems, $item_data, $row_count) = @_;
250 $item_elems->[$_]->replace_content($item_data->[$_]) for (0,1) ;
251 $item_elems;
252 }},
253 splice => { default => sub {
254 my ($container, @item_elems) = @_;
255 $container->splice_content(0, 2, @item_elems);
256 }
257 },
258 debug => {default => 0}
259 }
260 );
261
262 warn "wrapper_data: " . Dumper $p{wrapper_data} if $p{debug} ;
263
264 my $container = ref_or_ld($tree, $p{wrapper_ld});
265 warn "container: " . $container if $p{debug} ;
266 warn "wrapper_(preproc): " . $container->as_HTML if $p{debug} ;
267 $p{wrapper_proc}->($container) if defined $p{wrapper_proc} ;
268 warn "wrapper_(postproc): " . $container->as_HTML if $p{debug} ;
269
270 my $_item_elems = $p{item_ld}->($container);
271
272
273
274 my $row_count;
275 my @item_elem;
276 {
277 my $item_data = $p{item_data}->($p{wrapper_data});
278 last unless defined $item_data;
279
280 warn Dumper("item_data", $item_data);
281
282
283 my $item_elems = [ map { $_->clone } @{$_item_elems} ] ;
284
285 if ($p{debug}) {
286 for (@{$item_elems}) {
287 warn "ITEM_ELEMS ", $_->as_HTML;
288 }
289 }
290
291 my $new_item_elems = $p{item_proc}->($item_elems, $item_data, ++$row_count);
292
293 if ($p{debug}) {
294 for (@{$new_item_elems}) {
295 warn "NEWITEM_ELEMS ", $_->as_HTML;
296 }
297 }
298
299
300 push @item_elem, @{$new_item_elems} ;
301
302 redo;
303 }
304
305 warn "pushing " . @item_elem . " elems " if $p{debug} ;
306
307 $p{splice}->($container, @item_elem);
308
309 }
310
311 sub HTML::Element::dual_iter {
312 my ($parent, $data) = @_;
313
314 my ($prototype_a, $prototype_b) = $parent->content_list;
315
316 # my $id_incr = make_counter;
317
318 my $i;
319
320 @$data %2 == 0 or
321 confess 'dataset does not contain an even number of members';
322
323 my @iterable_data = ngroup 2 => @$data;
324
325 my @item = map {
326 my ($new_a, $new_b) = map { clone $_ } ($prototype_a, $prototype_b) ;
327 $new_a->splice_content(0,1, $_->[0]);
328 $new_b->splice_content(0,1, $_->[1]);
329 #$_->attr('id', $id_incr->($_->attr('id'))) for ($new_a, $new_b) ;
330 ($new_a, $new_b)
331 } @iterable_data;
332
333 $parent->splice_content(0, 2, @item);
334
335 }
336
337
338 sub HTML::Element::set_child_content {
339 my $tree = shift;
340 my $content = pop;
341 my @look_down = @_;
342
343 my $content_tag = $tree->look_down(@look_down);
344
345 unless ($content_tag) {
346 warn "criteria [@look_down] not found";
347 return;
348 }
349
350 $content_tag->replace_content($content);
351
352 }
353
354 sub HTML::Element::highlander {
355 my ($tree, $local_root_id, $aref, @arg) = @_;
356
357 ref $aref eq 'ARRAY' or confess
358 "must supply array reference";
359
360 my @aref = @$aref;
361 @aref % 2 == 0 or confess
362 "supplied array ref must have an even number of entries";
363
364 warn __PACKAGE__ if $DEBUG;
365
366 my $survivor;
367 while (my ($id, $test) = splice @aref, 0, 2) {
368 warn $id if $DEBUG;
369 if ($test->(@arg)) {
370 $survivor = $id;
371 last;
372 }
373 }
374
375
376 my @id_survivor = (id => $survivor);
377 my $survivor_node = $tree->look_down(@id_survivor);
378 # warn $survivor;
379 # warn $local_root_id;
380 # warn $node;
381
382 warn "survivor: $survivor" if $DEBUG;
383 warn "tree: " . $tree->as_HTML if $DEBUG;
384
385 $survivor_node or die "search for @id_survivor failed in tree($tree): " . $tree->as_HTML;
386
387 my $survivor_node_parent = $survivor_node->parent;
388 $survivor_node = $survivor_node->clone;
389 $survivor_node_parent->replace_content($survivor_node);
390
391 warn "new tree: " . $tree->as_HTML if $DEBUG;
392
393 $survivor_node;
394 }
395
396
397 sub HTML::Element::highlander2 {
398 my $tree = shift;
399
400 my %p = validate(@_, {
401 cond => { type => ARRAYREF },
402 cond_arg => { type => ARRAYREF,
403 default => []
404 },
405 debug => { default => 0 }
406 }
407 );
408
409
410 my @cond = @{$p{cond}};
411 @cond % 2 == 0 or confess
412 "supplied array ref must have an even number of entries";
413
414 warn __PACKAGE__ if $p{debug};
415
416 my @cond_arg = @{$p{cond_arg}};
417
418 my $survivor; my $then;
419 while (my ($id, $if_then) = splice @cond, 0, 2) {
420
421 warn $id if $p{debug};
422 my ($if, $_then);
423
424 if (ref $if_then eq 'ARRAY') {
425 ($if, $_then) = @$if_then;
426 } else {
427 ($if, $_then) = ($if_then, sub {});
428 }
429
430 if ($if->(@cond_arg)) {
431 $survivor = $id;
432 $then = $_then;
433 last;
434 }
435
436 }
437
438 my @ld = (ref $survivor eq 'ARRAY')
439 ? @$survivor
440 : (id => $survivor)
441 ;
442
443 warn "survivor: ", $survivor if $p{debug};
444 warn "survivor_ld: ", Dumper \@ld if $p{debug};
445
446
447 my $survivor_node = $tree->look_down(@ld);
448
449 $survivor_node or confess
450 "search for @ld failed in tree($tree): " . $tree->as_HTML;
451
452 my $survivor_node_parent = $survivor_node->parent;
453 $survivor_node = $survivor_node->clone;
454 $survivor_node_parent->replace_content($survivor_node);
455
456
457 # **************** NEW FUNCTIONALITY *******************
458
459 # apply transforms on survivor node
460
461
462 warn "SURV::pre_trans " . $survivor_node->as_HTML if $p{debug};
463 $then->($survivor_node, @cond_arg);
464 warn "SURV::post_trans " . $survivor_node->as_HTML if $p{debug};
465
466 # **************** NEW FUNCTIONALITY *******************
467
468
469
470
471 $survivor_node;
472 }
473
474
475 sub overwrite_action {
476 my ($mute_node, %X) = @_;
477
478 $mute_node->attr($X{local_attr}{name} => $X{local_attr}{value}{new});
479 }
480
481
482 sub HTML::Element::overwrite_attr {
483 my $tree = shift;
484
485 $tree->mute_elem(@_, \&overwrite_action);
486 }
487
488
489
490 sub HTML::Element::mute_elem {
491 my ($tree, $mute_attr, $closures, $post_hook) = @_;
492
493 warn "my mute_node = $tree->look_down($mute_attr => qr/.*/) ;";
494 my @mute_node = $tree->look_down($mute_attr => qr/.*/) ;
495
496 for my $mute_node (@mute_node) {
497 my ($local_attr,$mute_key) = split /\s+/, $mute_node->attr($mute_attr);
498 my $local_attr_value_current = $mute_node->attr($local_attr);
499 my $local_attr_value_new = $closures->{$mute_key}->($tree, $mute_node, $local_attr_value_current);
500 $post_hook->(
501 $mute_node,
502 tree => $tree,
503 local_attr => {
504 name => $local_attr,
505 value => {
506 current => $local_attr_value_current,
507 new => $local_attr_value_new
508 }
509 }
510 ) if ($post_hook) ;
511 }
512 }
513
514
515
516 sub HTML::Element::table {
517
518 my ($s, %table) = @_;
519
520 my $table = {};
521
522 # use Data::Dumper; warn Dumper \%table;
523
524 # ++$DEBUG if $table{debug} ;
525
526
527 # Get the table element
528 $table->{table_node} = $s->look_down(id => $table{gi_table});
529 $table->{table_node} or confess
530 "table tag not found via (id => $table{gi_table}";
531
532 # Get the prototype tr element(s)
533 my @table_gi_tr = listify $table{gi_tr} ;
534 my @iter_node = map
535 {
536 my $tr = $table->{table_node}->look_down(id => $_);
537 $tr or confess "tr with id => $_ not found";
538 $tr;
539 } @table_gi_tr;
540
541 warn "found " . @iter_node . " iter nodes " if $DEBUG;
542 # tie my $iter_node, 'Tie::Cycle', \@iter_node;
543 my $iter_node = List::Rotation::Cycle->new(@iter_node);
544
545 # warn $iter_node;
546 warn Dumper ($iter_node, \@iter_node) if $DEBUG;
547
548 # $table->{content} = $table{content};
549 #$table->{parent} = $table->{table_node}->parent;
550
551
552 # $table->{table_node}->detach;
553 # $_->detach for @iter_node;
554
555 my @table_rows;
556
557 {
558 my $row = $table{tr_data}->($table, $table{table_data});
559 last unless defined $row;
560
561 # get a sample table row and clone it.
562 my $I = $iter_node->next;
563 warn "I: $I" if $DEBUG;
564 my $new_iter_node = $I->clone;
565
566
567 $table{td_data}->($new_iter_node, $row);
568 push @table_rows, $new_iter_node;
569
570 redo;
571 }
572
573 if (@table_rows) {
574
575 my $replace_with_elem = $s->look_down(id => shift @table_gi_tr) ;
576 for (@table_gi_tr) {
577 $s->look_down(id => $_)->detach;
578 }
579
580 $replace_with_elem->replace_with(@table_rows);
581
582 }
583
584 }
585
586 sub ref_or_ld {
587
588 my ($tree, $slot) = @_;
589
590 if (ref($slot) eq 'CODE') {
591 $slot->($tree);
592 } else {
593 $tree->look_down(@$slot);
594 }
595 }
596
597
598
599 sub HTML::Element::table2 {
600
601 my $tree = shift;
602
603
604
605 my %p = validate(
606 @_, {
607 table_ld => { default => ['_tag' => 'table'] },
608 table_data => 1,
609 table_proc => { default => undef },
610
611 tr_ld => { default => ['_tag' => 'tr'] },
612 tr_data => { default => sub { my ($self, $data) = @_;
613 shift(@{$data}) ;
614 }},
615 tr_base_id => { default => undef },
616 tr_proc => { default => sub {} },
617 td_proc => 1,
618 debug => {default => 0}
619 }
620 );
621
622 warn "INPUT TO TABLE2: ", Dumper \@_ if $p{debug};
623
624 warn "table_data: " . Dumper $p{table_data} if $p{debug} ;
625
626 my $table = {};
627
628 # use Data::Dumper; warn Dumper \%table;
629
630 # ++$DEBUG if $table{debug} ;
631
632 # Get the table element
633 #warn 1;
634 $table->{table_node} = ref_or_ld( $tree, $p{table_ld} ) ;
635 #warn 2;
636 $table->{table_node} or confess
637 "table tag not found via " . Dumper($p{table_ld}) ;
638
639 warn "table: " . $table->{table_node}->as_HTML if $p{debug};
640
641
642 # Get the prototype tr element(s)
643 my @proto_tr = ref_or_ld( $table->{table_node}, $p{tr_ld} ) ;
644
645 warn "found " . @proto_tr . " iter nodes " if $p{debug};
646
647 @proto_tr or return ;
648
649 if ($p{debug}) {
650 warn $_->as_HTML for @proto_tr;
651 }
652 my $proto_tr = List::Rotation::Cycle->new(@proto_tr);
653
654 my $tr_parent = $proto_tr[0]->parent;
655 warn "parent element of trs: " . $tr_parent->as_HTML if $p{debug};
656
657 my $row_count;
658
659 my @table_rows;
660
661 {
662 my $row = $p{tr_data}->($table, $p{table_data}, $row_count);
663 warn "data row: " . Dumper $row if $p{debug};
664 last unless defined $row;
665
666 # wont work: my $new_iter_node = $table->{iter_node}->clone;
667 my $new_tr_node = $proto_tr->next->clone;
668 warn "new_tr_node: $new_tr_node" if $p{debug};
669
670 $p{tr_proc}->($tree, $new_tr_node, $row, $p{tr_base_id}, ++$row_count)
671 if defined $p{tr_proc};
672
673 warn "data row redux: " . Dumper $row if $p{debug};
674 #warn 3.3;
675
676 $p{td_proc}->($new_tr_node, $row);
677 push @table_rows, $new_tr_node;
678
679 #warn 4.4;
680
681 redo;
682 }
683
684 $_->detach for @proto_tr;
685
686 $tr_parent->push_content(@table_rows) if (@table_rows) ;
687
688 }
689
690
691 sub HTML::Element::unroll_select {
692
693 my ($s, %select) = @_;
694
695 my $select = {};
696
697 warn "Select Hash: " . Dumper(\%select) if $select{debug};
698
699 my $select_node = $s->look_down(id => $select{select_label});
700 warn "Select Node: " . $select_node if $select{debug};
701
702 unless ($select{append}) {
703 for my $option ($select_node->look_down('_tag' => 'option')) {
704 $option->delete;
705 }
706 }
707
708
709 my $option = HTML::Element->new('option');
710 warn "Option Node: " . $option if $select{debug};
711
712 $option->detach;
713
714 while (my $row = $select{data_iter}->($select{data}))
715 {
716 warn "Data Row:" . Dumper($row) if $select{debug};
717 my $o = $option->clone;
718 $o->attr('value', $select{option_value}->($row));
719 $o->attr('SELECTED', 1) if (exists $select{option_selected} and $select{option_selected}->($row)) ;
720
721 $o->replace_content($select{option_content}->($row));
722 $select_node->push_content($o);
723 warn $o->as_HTML if $select{debug};
724 }
725
726
727 }
728
729
730
731 sub HTML::Element::set_sibling_content {
732 my ($elt, $content) = @_;
733
734 $elt->parent->splice_content($elt->pindex + 1, 1, $content);
735
736 }
737
738 sub HTML::TreeBuilder::parse_string {
739 my ($package, $string) = @_;
740
741 my $h = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
742 HTML::TreeBuilder->parse($string);
743
744 }
745
746
747
748 1;
749 __END__
750 # Below is stub documentation for your module. You'd better edit it!
751
752 =head1 NAME
753
754 HTML::Element::Library - HTML::Element convenience functions
755
756 =head1 SYNOPSIS
757
758 use HTML::Element::Library;
759 use HTML::TreeBuilder;
760
761 =head1 DESCRIPTION
762
763 This method provides API calls for common actions on trees when using
764 L<HTML::Tree>.
765
766 =head1 METHODS
767
768 The test suite contains examples of each of these methods in a
769 file C<t/$method.t>
770
771 =head2 Positional Querying Methods
772
773 =head3 $elem->siblings
774
775 Return a list of all nodes under the same parent.
776
777 =head3 $elem->sibdex
778
779 Return the index of C<$elem> into the array of siblings of which it is
780 a part. L<HTML::ElementSuper> calls this method C<addr> but I don't think
781 that is a descriptive name. And such naming is deceptively close to the
782 C<address> function of C<HTML::Element>. HOWEVER, in the interest of
783 backwards compatibility, both methods are available.
784
785 =head3 $elem->addr
786
787 Same as sibdex
788
789 =head3 $elem->position()
790
791 Returns the coordinates of this element in the tree it inhabits.
792 This is accomplished by succesively calling addr() on ancestor
793 elements until either a) an element that does not support these
794 methods is found, or b) there are no more parents. The resulting
795 list is the n-dimensional coordinates of the element in the tree.
796
797 =head2 Element Decoration Methods
798
799 =head3 HTML::Element::Library::super_literal($text)
800
801 In L<HTML::Element>, Sean Burke discusses super-literals. They are
802 text which does not get escaped. Great for includng Javascript in
803 HTML. Also great for including foreign language into a document.
804
805 So, you basically toss C<super_literal> your text and back comes
806 your text wrapped in a C<~literal> element.
807
808 One of these days, I'll around to writing a nice C<EXPORT> section.
809
810 =head2 Tree Rewriting Methods
811
812 =head3 Simplifying calls to HTML::FillInForm
813
814 Since HTML::FillInForm gets and returns strings, using HTML::Element instances
815 becomes tedious:
816
817 1. Seamstress has an HTML tree that it wants the form filled in on
818 2. Seamstress converts this tree to a string
819 3. FillInForm parses the string into an HTML tree and then fills in the form
820 4. FillInForm converts the HTML tree to a string
821 5. Seamstress re-parses the HTML for additional processing
822
823 I've filed a bug about this:
824 L<https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=44105>
825
826 This function, fillinform,
827 allows you to pass a tree to fillinform (along with your data structure) and
828 get back a tree:
829
830 my $new_tree = $html_tree->fillinform($data_structure);
831
832
833 =head3 Mapping a hashref to HTML elements
834
835 It is very common to get a hashref of data from some external source - flat file, database, XML, etc.
836 Therefore, it is important to have a convenient way of mapping this data to HTML.
837
838 As it turns out, there are 3 ways to do this in HTML::Element::Library.
839 The most strict and structured way to do this is with
840 C<content_handler>. Two other methods, C<hashmap> and C<datamap> require less manual mapping and may prove
841 even more easy to use in certain cases.
842
843 As is usual with Perl, a practical example is always best. So let's take some sample HTML:
844
845 <h1>user data</h1>
846 <span id="name">?</span>
847 <span id="email">?</span>
848 <span id="gender">?</span>
849
850 Now, let's say our data structure is this:
851
852 $ref = { email => 'jim@beam.com', gender => 'lots' } ;
853
854 And let's start with the most strict way to get what you want:
855
856 $tree->content_handler(email => $ref->{email} , gender => $ref->{gender}) ;
857
858
859 In this case, you manually state the mapping between id tags and hashref keys and
860 then C<content_handler> retrieves the hashref data and pops it in the specified place.
861
862 Now let's look at the two (actually 2 and a half) other hash-mapping methods.
863
864 $tree->hashmap(id => $ref);
865
866 Now, what this function does is super-destructive. It finds every element in the tree
867 with an attribute named id (since 'id' is a parameter, it could find every element with
868 some other attribute also) and replaces the content of those elements with the hashref
869 value.
870
871 So, in the case above, the
872
873 <span id="name">?</span>
874
875 would come out as
876
877 <span id="name"></span>
878
879 (it would be blank) - because there is nothing in the hash with that value, so it substituted
880
881 $ref->{name}
882
883 which was blank and emptied the contents.
884
885 Now, let's assume we want to protect name from being auto-assigned. Here is what you do:
886
887 $tree->hashmap(id => $ref, ['name']);
888
889 That last array ref is an exclusion list.
890
891 But wouldnt it be nice if you could do a hashmap, but only assigned things which are defined
892 in the hashref? C<< defmap() >> to the rescue:
893
894 $tree->defmap(id => $ref);
895
896 does just that, so
897
898 <span id="name">?</span>
899
900 would be left alone.
901
902
903 =head4 $elem->hashmap($attr_name, \%hashref, \@excluded, $debug)
904
905 This method is designed to take a hashref and populate a series of elements. For example:
906
907
908 <table>
909 <tr sclass="tr" class="alt" align="left" valign="top">
910 <td smap="people_id">1</td>
911 <td smap="phone">(877) 255-3239</td>
912 <td smap="password">*********</td>
913 </tr>
914 </table>
915
916 In the table above, there are several attributes named C<< smap >>. If we have a hashref whose keys are the same:
917
918 my %data = (people_id => 888, phone => '444-4444', password => 'dont-you-dare-render');
919
920 Then a single API call allows us to populate the HTML while excluding those ones we dont:
921
922 $tree->hashmap(smap => \%data, ['password']);
923
924
925 Note: the other way to prevent rendering some of the hash mapping is to not give that element the attr
926 you plan to use for hash mapping.
927
928 Also note: the function C<< hashmap >> has a simple easy-to-type API. Interally, it calls C<< hash_map >>
929 (which has a more verbose keyword calling API). Thus, the above call to C<hashmap()> results in this call:
930
931 $tree->hash_map(hash => \%data, to_attr => 'sid', excluding => ['password']);
932
933 =head4 $elem->defmap($attr_name, \%hashref, $debug)
934
935 C<defmap> was described above.
936
937
938 =head4 $elem->content_handler(%hashref)
939
940 C<content_handler> is described below.
941
942
943 =head3 $elem->replace_content(@new_elem)
944
945 Replaces all of C<$elem>'s content with C<@new_elem>.
946
947 =head3 $elem->wrap_content($wrapper_element)
948
949 Wraps the existing content in the provided element. If the provided element
950 happens to be a non-element, a push_content is performed instead.
951
952 =head3 $elem->set_child_content(@look_down, $content)
953
954 This method looks down $tree using the criteria specified in @look_down using the the HTML::Element look_down() method.
955
956 After finding the node, it detaches the node's content and pushes $content as the node's content.
957
958 =head3 $tree->content_handler(%id_content)
959
960 This is a convenience method. Because the look_down criteria will often simply be:
961
962 id => 'fixme'
963
964 to find things like:
965
966 <a id=fixme href=http://www.somesite.org>replace_content</a>
967
968 You can call this method to shorten your typing a bit. You can simply type
969
970 $elem->content_handler( fixme => 'new text' )
971
972 Instead of typing:
973
974 $elem->set_child_content(sid => 'fixme', 'new text')
975
976 ALSO NOTE: you can pass a hash whose keys are C<id>s and whose values are the content you want there and it will perform the replacement on each hash member:
977
978 my %id_content = (name => "Terrence Brannon",
979 email => 'tbrannon@in.com',
980 balance => 666,
981 content => $main_content);
982
983 $tree->content_handler(%id_content);
984
985 =head3 $tree->highlander($subtree_span_id, $conditionals, @conditionals_args)
986
987 This allows for "if-then-else" style processing. Highlander was a movie in
988 which only one would survive. Well, in terms of a tree when looking at a
989 structure that you want to process in C<if-then-else> style, only one child
990 will survive. For example, given this HTML template:
991
992 <span klass="highlander" id="age_dialog">
993 <span id="under10">
994 Hello, does your mother know you're
995 using her AOL account?
996 </span>
997 <span id="under18">
998 Sorry, you're not old enough to enter
999 (and too dumb to lie about your age)
1000 </span>
1001 <span id="welcome">
1002 Welcome
1003 </span>
1004 </span>
1005
1006 We only want one child of the C<span> tag with id C<age_dialog> to remain
1007 based on the age of the person visiting the page.
1008
1009 So, let's setup a call that will prune the subtree as a function of age:
1010
1011 sub process_page {
1012 my $age = shift;
1013 my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file('t/html/highlander.html');
1014
1015 $tree->highlander
1016 (age_dialog =>
1017 [
1018 under10 => sub { $_[0] < 10} ,
1019 under18 => sub { $_[0] < 18} ,
1020 welcome => sub { 1 }
1021 ],
1022 $age
1023 );
1024
1025 And there we have it. If the age is less than 10, then the node with
1026 id C<under10> remains. For age less than 18, the node with id C<under18>
1027 remains.
1028 Otherwise our "else" condition fires and the child with id C<welcome> remains.
1029
1030 =head3 $tree->passover(@id_of_element)
1031
1032 In some cases, you know exactly which element(s) should survive. In this case,
1033 you can simply call C<passover> to remove it's (their) siblings. For the HTML
1034 above, you could delete C<under10> and C<welcome> by simply calling:
1035
1036 $tree->passover('under18');
1037
1038 Because passover takes an array, you can specify several children to preserve.
1039
1040 =head3 $tree->highlander2($tree, $conditionals, @conditionals_args)
1041
1042 Right around the same time that C<table2()> came into being, Seamstress
1043 began to tackle tougher and tougher processing problems. It became clear that
1044 a more powerful highlander was needed... one that not only snipped the tree
1045 of the nodes that should not survive, but one that allows for
1046 post-processing of the survivor node. And one that was more flexible with
1047 how to find the nodes to snip.
1048
1049 Thus (drum roll) C<highlander2()>.
1050
1051 So let's look at our HTML which requires post-selection processing:
1052
1053 <span klass="highlander" id="age_dialog">
1054 <span id="under10">
1055 Hello, little <span id=age>AGE</span>-year old,
1056 does your mother know you're using her AOL account?
1057 </span>
1058 <span id="under18">
1059 Sorry, you're only <span id=age>AGE</span>
1060 (and too dumb to lie about your age)
1061 </span>
1062 <span id="welcome">
1063 Welcome, isn't it good to be <span id=age>AGE</span> years old?
1064 </span>
1065 </span>
1066
1067 In this case, a branch survives, but it has dummy data in it. We must take
1068 the surviving segment of HTML and rewrite the age C<span> with the age.
1069 Here is how we use C<highlander2()> to do so:
1070
1071 sub replace_age {
1072 my $branch = shift;
1073 my $age = shift;
1074 $branch->look_down(id => 'age')->replace_content($age);
1075 }
1076
1077 my $if_then = $tree->look_down(id => 'age_dialog');
1078
1079 $if_then->highlander2(
1080 cond => [
1081 under10 => [
1082 sub { $_[0] < 10} ,
1083 \&replace_age
1084 ],
1085 under18 => [
1086 sub { $_[0] < 18} ,
1087 \&replace_age
1088 ],
1089 welcome => [
1090 sub { 1 },
1091 \&replace_age
1092 ]
1093 ],
1094 cond_arg => [ $age ]
1095 );
1096
1097 We pass it the tree (C<$if_then>), an arrayref of conditions
1098 (C<cond>) and an arrayref of arguments which are passed to the
1099 C<cond>s and to the replacement subs.
1100
1101 The C<under10>, C<under18> and C<welcome> are id attributes in the
1102 tree of the siblings of which only one will survive. However,
1103 should you need to do
1104 more complex look-downs to find the survivor,
1105 then supply an array ref instead of a simple
1106 scalar:
1107
1108
1109 $if_then->highlander2(
1110 cond => [
1111 [class => 'r12'] => [
1112 sub { $_[0] < 10} ,
1113 \&replace_age
1114 ],
1115 [class => 'z22'] => [
1116 sub { $_[0] < 18} ,
1117 \&replace_age
1118 ],
1119 [class => 'w88'] => [
1120 sub { 1 },
1121 \&replace_age
1122 ]
1123 ],
1124 cond_arg => [ $age ]
1125 );
1126
1127
1128 =head3 $tree->overwrite_attr($mutation_attr => $mutating_closures)
1129
1130 This method is designed for taking a tree and reworking a set of nodes in
1131 a stereotyped fashion. For instance let's say you have 3 remote image
1132 archives, but you don't want to put long URLs in your img src
1133 tags for reasons of abstraction, re-use and brevity. So instead you do this:
1134
1135 <img src="/img/smiley-face.jpg" fixup="src lnc">
1136 <img src="/img/hot-babe.jpg" fixup="src playboy">
1137 <img src="/img/footer.jpg" fixup="src foobar">
1138
1139 and then when the tree of HTML is being processed, you make this call:
1140
1141 my %closures = (
1142 lnc => sub { my ($tree, $mute_node, $attr_value)= @_; "http://lnc.usc.edu$attr_value" },
1143 playboy => sub { my ($tree, $mute_node, $attr_value)= @_; "http://playboy.com$attr_value" }
1144 foobar => sub { my ($tree, $mute_node, $attr_value)= @_; "http://foobar.info$attr_value" }
1145 )
1146
1147 $tree->overwrite_attr(fixup => \%closures) ;
1148
1149 and the tags come out modified like so:
1150
1151 <img src="http://lnc.usc.edu/img/smiley-face.jpg" fixup="src lnc">
1152 <img src="http://playboy.com/img/hot-babe.jpg" fixup="src playboy">
1153 <img src="http://foobar.info/img/footer.jpg" fixup="src foobar">
1154
1155 =head3 $tree->mute_elem($mutation_attr => $mutating_closures, [ $post_hook ] )
1156
1157 This is a generalization of C<overwrite_attr>. C<overwrite_attr>
1158 assumes the return value of the
1159 closure is supposed overwrite an attribute value and does it for you.
1160 C<mute_elem> is a more general function which does nothing but
1161 hand the closure the element and let it mutate it as it jolly well pleases :)
1162
1163 In fact, here is the implementation of C<overwrite_attr>
1164 to give you a taste of how C<mute_attr> is used:
1165
1166 sub overwrite_action {
1167 my ($mute_node, %X) = @_;
1168
1169 $mute_node->attr($X{local_attr}{name} => $X{local_attr}{value}{new});
1170 }
1171
1172
1173 sub HTML::Element::overwrite_attr {
1174 my $tree = shift;
1175
1176 $tree->mute_elem(@_, \&overwrite_action);
1177 }
1178
1179
1180
1181
1182 =head2 Tree-Building Methods
1183
1184
1185
1186 =head3 Unrolling an array via a single sample element (<ul> container)
1187
1188 This is best described by example. Given this HTML:
1189
1190 <strong>Here are the things I need from the store:</strong>
1191 <ul>
1192 <li class="store_items">Sample item</li>
1193 </ul>
1194
1195 We can unroll it like so:
1196
1197 my $li = $tree->look_down(class => 'store_items');
1198
1199 my @items = qw(bread butter vodka);
1200
1201 $tree->iter($li => @items);
1202
1203 To produce this:
1204
1205
1206 <html>
1207 <head></head>
1208 <body>Here are the things I need from the store:
1209 <ul>
1210 <li class="store_items">bread</li>
1211 <li class="store_items">butter</li>
1212 <li class="store_items">vodka</li>
1213 </ul>
1214 </body>
1215 </html>
1216
1217 Now, you might be wondering why the API call is:
1218
1219 $tree->iter($li => @items)
1220
1221 instead of:
1222
1223 $li->iter(@items)
1224
1225 and there is no good answer. The latter would be more concise and it is what I
1226 should have done.
1227
1228 =head3 Unrolling an array via n sample elements (<dl> container)
1229
1230 C<iter()> was fine for awhile, but some things
1231 (e.g. definition lists) need a more general function to make them easy to
1232 do. Hence C<iter2()>. This function will be explained by example of unrolling
1233 a simple definition list.
1234
1235 So here's our mock-up HTML from the designer:
1236
1237 <dl class="dual_iter" id="service_plan">
1238 <dt>
1239 Artist
1240 </dt>
1241 <dd>
1242 A person who draws blood.
1243 </dd>
1244
1245 <dt>
1246 Musician
1247 </dt>
1248 <dd>
1249 A clone of Iggy Pop.
1250 </dd>
1251
1252 <dt>
1253 Poet
1254 </dt>
1255 <dd>
1256 A relative of Edgar Allan Poe.
1257 </dd>
1258
1259 <dt class="adstyle">sample header</dt>
1260 <dd class="adstyle2">sample data</dd>
1261
1262 </dl>
1263
1264
1265 And we want to unroll our data set:
1266
1267 my @items = (
1268 ['the pros' => 'never have to worry about service again'],
1269 ['the cons' => 'upfront extra charge on purchase'],
1270 ['our choice' => 'go with the extended service plan']
1271 );
1272
1273
1274 Now, let's make this problem a bit harder to show off the power of C<iter2()>.
1275 Let's assume that we want only the last <dt> and it's accompanying <dd>
1276 (the one with "sample data") to be used as the sample data
1277 for unrolling with our data set. Let's further assume that we want them to
1278 remain in the final output.
1279
1280 So now, the API to C<iter2()> will be discussed and we will explain how our
1281 goal of getting our data into HTML fits into the API.
1282
1283 =over 4
1284
1285 =item * wrapper_ld
1286
1287 This is how to look down and find the container of all the elements we will
1288 be unrolling. The <dl> tag is the container for the dt and dd tags we will be
1289 unrolling.
1290
1291 If you pass an anonymous subroutine, then it is presumed that execution of
1292 this subroutine will return the HTML::Element representing the container tag.
1293 If you pass an array ref, then this will be dereferenced and passed to
1294 C<HTML::Element::look_down()>.
1295
1296 default value: C<< ['_tag' => 'dl'] >>
1297
1298 Based on the mock HTML above, this default is fine for finding our container
1299 tag. So let's move on.
1300
1301 =item * wrapper_data
1302
1303 This is an array reference of data that we will be putting into the container.
1304 You must supply this. C<@items> above is our C<wrapper_data>.
1305
1306 =item * wrapper_proc
1307
1308 After we find the container via C<wrapper_ld>, we may want to pre-process
1309 some aspect of this tree. In our case the first two sets of dt and dd need
1310 to be removed, leaving the last dt and dd. So, we supply a C<wrapper_proc>
1311 which will do this.
1312
1313 default: undef
1314
1315 =item * item_ld
1316
1317 This anonymous subroutine returns an array ref of C<HTML::Element>s that will
1318 be cloned and populated with item data
1319 (item data is a "row" of C<wrapper_data>).
1320
1321 default: returns an arrayref consisting of the dt and dd element inside the
1322 container.
1323
1324 =item * item_data
1325
1326 This is a subroutine that takes C<wrapper_data> and retrieves one "row"
1327 to be "pasted" into the array ref of C<HTML::Element>s found via C<item_ld>.
1328 I hope that makes sense.
1329
1330 default: shifts C<wrapper_data>.
1331
1332 =item * item_proc
1333
1334 This is a subroutine that takes the C<item_data> and the C<HTML::Element>s
1335 found via C<item_ld> and produces an arrayref of C<HTML::Element>s which will
1336 eventually be spliced into the container.
1337
1338 Note that this subroutine MUST return the new items. This is done
1339 So that more items than were passed in can be returned. This is
1340 useful when, for example, you must return 2 dts for an input data item.
1341 And when would you do this? When a single term has multiple spellings
1342 for instance.
1343
1344 default: expects C<item_data> to be an arrayref of two elements and
1345 C<item_elems> to be an arrayref of two C<HTML::Element>s. It replaces the
1346 content of the C<HTML::Element>s with the C<item_data>.
1347
1348 =item * splice
1349
1350 After building up an array of C<@item_elems>, the subroutine passed as
1351 C<splice> will be given the parent container HTML::Element and the
1352 C<@item_elems>. How the C<@item_elems> end up in the container is up to this
1353 routine: it could put half of them in. It could unshift them or whatever.
1354
1355 default: C<< $container->splice_content(0, 2, @item_elems) >>
1356 In other words, kill the 2 sample elements with the newly generated
1357 @item_elems
1358
1359 =back
1360
1361 So now that we have documented the API, let's see the call we need:
1362
1363 $tree->iter2(
1364 # default wrapper_ld ok.
1365 wrapper_data => \@items,
1366 wrapper_proc => sub {
1367 my ($container) = @_;
1368
1369 # only keep the last 2 dts and dds
1370 my @content_list = $container->content_list;
1371 $container->splice_content(0, @content_list - 2);
1372 },
1373
1374 # default item_ld is fine.
1375 # default item_data is fine.
1376 # default item_proc is fine.
1377 splice => sub {
1378 my ($container, @item_elems) = @_;
1379 $container->unshift_content(@item_elems);
1380 },
1381 debug => 1,
1382 );
1383
1384
1385
1386
1387 =head3 Select Unrolling
1388
1389 The C<unroll_select> method has this API:
1390
1391 $tree->unroll_select(
1392 select_label => $id_label,
1393 option_value => $closure, # how to get option value from data row
1394 option_content => $closure, # how to get option content from data row
1395 option_selected => $closure, # boolean to decide if SELECTED
1396 data => $data # the data to be put into the SELECT
1397 data_iter => $closure # the thing that will get a row of data
1398 debug => $boolean,
1399 append => $boolean, # remove the sample <OPTION> data or append?
1400 );
1401
1402 Here's an example:
1403
1404 $tree->unroll_select(
1405 select_label => 'clan_list',
1406 option_value => sub { my $row = shift; $row->clan_id },
1407 option_content => sub { my $row = shift; $row->clan_name },
1408 option_selected => sub { my $row = shift; $row->selected },
1409 data => \@query_results,
1410 data_iter => sub { my $data = shift; $data->next },
1411 append => 0,
1412 debug => 0
1413 );
1414
1415
1416
1417 =head2 Tree-Building Methods: Table Generation
1418
1419 Matthew Sisk has a much more intuitive (imperative)
1420 way to generate tables via his module
1421 L<HTML::ElementTable|HTML::ElementTable>.
1422 However, for those with callback fever, the following
1423 method is available. First, we look at a nuts and bolts way to build a table
1424 using only standard L<HTML::Tree> API calls. Then the C<table> method
1425 available here is discussed.
1426
1427 =head3 Sample Model
1428
1429 package Simple::Class;
1430
1431 use Set::Array;
1432
1433 my @name = qw(bob bill brian babette bobo bix);
1434 my @age = qw(99 12 44 52 12 43);
1435 my @weight = qw(99 52 80 124 120 230);
1436
1437
1438 sub new {
1439 my $this = shift;
1440 bless {}, ref($this) || $this;
1441 }
1442
1443 sub load_data {
1444 my @data;
1445
1446 for (0 .. 5) {
1447 push @data, {
1448 age => $age[rand $#age] + int rand 20,
1449 name => shift @name,
1450 weight => $weight[rand $#weight] + int rand 40
1451 }
1452 }
1453
1454 Set::Array->new(@data);
1455 }
1456
1457
1458 1;
1459
1460
1461 =head4 Sample Usage:
1462
1463 my $data = Simple::Class->load_data;
1464 ++$_->{age} for @$data
1465
1466 =head3 Inline Code to Unroll a Table
1467
1468 =head4 HTML
1469
1470 <html>
1471
1472 <table id="load_data">
1473
1474 <tr> <th>name</th><th>age</th><th>weight</th> </tr>
1475
1476 <tr id="iterate">
1477
1478 <td id="name"> NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR </td>
1479 <td id="age"> 35 </td>
1480 <td id="weight"> 220 </td>
1481
1482 </tr>
1483
1484 </table>
1485
1486 </html>
1487
1488
1489 =head4 The manual way (*NOT* recommended)
1490
1491 require 'simple-class.pl';
1492 use HTML::Seamstress;
1493
1494 # load the view
1495 my $seamstress = HTML::Seamstress->new_from_file('simple.html');
1496
1497 # load the model
1498 my $o = Simple::Class->new;
1499 my $data = $o->load_data;
1500
1501 # find the <table> and <tr>
1502 my $table_node = $seamstress->look_down('id', 'load_data');
1503 my $iter_node = $table_node->look_down('id', 'iterate');
1504 my $table_parent = $table_node->parent;
1505
1506
1507 # drop the sample <table> and <tr> from the HTML
1508 # only add them in if there is data in the model
1509 # this is achieved via the $add_table flag
1510
1511 $table_node->detach;
1512 $iter_node->detach;
1513 my $add_table;
1514
1515 # Get a row of model data
1516 while (my $row = shift @$data) {
1517
1518 # We got row data. Set the flag indicating ok to hook the table into the HTML
1519 ++$add_table;
1520
1521 # clone the sample <tr>
1522 my $new_iter_node = $iter_node->clone;
1523
1524 # find the tags labeled name age and weight and
1525 # set their content to the row data
1526 $new_iter_node->content_handler($_ => $row->{$_})
1527 for qw(name age weight);
1528
1529 $table_node->push_content($new_iter_node);
1530
1531 }
1532
1533 # reattach the table to the HTML tree if we loaded data into some table rows
1534
1535 $table_parent->push_content($table_node) if $add_table;
1536
1537 print $seamstress->as_HTML;
1538
1539
1540
1541 =head3 $tree->table() : API call to Unroll a Table
1542
1543 require 'simple-class.pl';
1544 use HTML::Seamstress;
1545
1546 # load the view
1547 my $seamstress = HTML::Seamstress->new_from_file('simple.html');
1548 # load the model
1549 my $o = Simple::Class->new;
1550
1551 $seamstress->table
1552 (
1553 # tell seamstress where to find the table, via the method call
1554 # ->look_down('id', $gi_table). Seamstress detaches the table from the
1555 # HTML tree automatically if no table rows can be built
1556
1557 gi_table => 'load_data',
1558
1559 # tell seamstress where to find the tr. This is a bit useless as
1560 # the <tr> usually can be found as the first child of the parent
1561
1562 gi_tr => 'iterate',
1563
1564 # the model data to be pushed into the table
1565
1566 table_data => $o->load_data,
1567
1568 # the way to take the model data and obtain one row
1569 # if the table data were a hashref, we would do:
1570 # my $key = (keys %$data)[0]; my $val = $data->{$key}; delete $data->{$key}
1571
1572 tr_data => sub { my ($self, $data) = @_;
1573 shift(@{$data}) ;
1574 },
1575
1576 # the way to take a row of data and fill the <td> tags
1577
1578 td_data => sub { my ($tr_node, $tr_data) = @_;
1579 $tr_node->content_handler($_ => $tr_data->{$_})
1580 for qw(name age weight) }
1581
1582 );
1583
1584
1585 print $seamstress->as_HTML;
1586
1587
1588
1589 =head4 Looping over Multiple Sample Rows
1590
1591 * HTML
1592
1593 <html>
1594
1595 <table id="load_data" CELLPADDING=8 BORDER=2>
1596
1597 <tr> <th>name</th><th>age</th><th>weight</th> </tr>
1598
1599 <tr id="iterate1" BGCOLOR="white" >
1600
1601 <td id="name"> NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR </td>
1602 <td id="age"> 35 </td>
1603 <td id="weight"> 220 </td>
1604
1605 </tr>
1606 <tr id="iterate2" BGCOLOR="#CCCC99">
1607
1608 <td id="name"> NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR </td>
1609 <td id="age"> 35 </td>
1610 <td id="weight"> 220 </td>
1611
1612 </tr>
1613
1614 </table>
1615
1616 </html>
1617
1618
1619 * Only one change to last API call.
1620
1621 This:
1622
1623 gi_tr => 'iterate',
1624
1625 becomes this:
1626
1627 gi_tr => ['iterate1', 'iterate2']
1628
1629 =head3 $tree->table2() : New API Call to Unroll a Table
1630
1631 After 2 or 3 years with C<table()>, I began to develop
1632 production websites with it and decided it needed a cleaner
1633 interface, particularly in the area of handling the fact that
1634 C<id> tags will be the same after cloning a table row.
1635
1636 First, I will give a dry listing of the function's argument parameters.
1637 This will not be educational most likely. A better way to understand how
1638 to use the function is to read through the incremental unrolling of the
1639 function's interface given in conversational style after the dry listing.
1640 But take your pick. It's the same information given in two different
1641 ways.
1642
1643 =head4 Dry/technical parameter documentation
1644
1645 C<< $tree->table2(%param) >> takes the following arguments:
1646
1647 =over
1648
1649 =item * C<< table_ld => $look_down >> : optional
1650
1651 How to find the C<table> element in C<$tree>. If C<$look_down> is an
1652 arrayref, then use C<look_down>. If it is a CODE ref, then call it,
1653 passing it C<$tree>.
1654
1655 Defaults to C<< ['_tag' => 'table'] >> if not passed in.
1656
1657 =item * C<< table_data => $tabular_data >> : required
1658
1659 The data to fill the table with. I<Must> be passed in.
1660
1661 =item * C<< table_proc => $code_ref >> : not implemented
1662
1663 A subroutine to do something to the table once it is found.
1664 Not currently implemented. Not obviously necessary. Just
1665 created because there is a C<tr_proc> and C<td_proc>.
1666
1667 =item * C<< tr_ld => $look_down >> : optional
1668
1669 Same as C<table_ld> but for finding the table row elements. Please note
1670 that the C<tr_ld> is done on the table node that was found I<instead>
1671 of the whole HTML tree. This makes sense. The C<tr>s that you want exist
1672 below the table that was just found.
1673
1674 Defaults to C<< ['_tag' => 'tr'] >> if not passed in.
1675
1676 =item * C<< tr_data => $code_ref >> : optional
1677
1678 How to take the C<table_data> and return a row. Defaults to:
1679
1680 sub { my ($self, $data) = @_;
1681 shift(@{$data}) ;
1682 }
1683
1684 =item * C<< tr_proc => $code_ref >> : optional
1685
1686 Something to do to the table row we are about to add to the
1687 table we are making. Defaults to a routine which makes the C<id>
1688 attribute unique:
1689
1690 sub {
1691 my ($self, $tr, $tr_data, $tr_base_id, $row_count) = @_;
1692 $tr->attr(id => sprintf "%s_%d", $tr_base_id, $row_count);
1693 }
1694
1695 =item * C<< td_proc => $code_ref >> : required
1696
1697 This coderef will take the row of data and operate on the C<td> cells that
1698 are children of the C<tr>. See C<t/table2.t> for several usage examples.
1699
1700 Here's a sample one:
1701
1702 sub {
1703 my ($tr, $data) = @_;
1704 my @td = $tr->look_down('_tag' => 'td');
1705 for my $i (0..$#td) {
1706 $td[$i]->splice_content(0, 1, $data->[$i]);
1707 }
1708 }
1709
1710 =cut
1711
1712 =head4 Conversational parameter documentation
1713
1714 The first thing you need is a table. So we need a look down for that. If you
1715 don't give one, it defaults to
1716
1717 ['_tag' => 'table']
1718
1719 What good is a table to display in without data to display?!
1720 So you must supply a scalar representing your tabular
1721 data source. This scalar might be an array reference, a C<next>able iterator,
1722 a DBI statement handle. Whatever it is, it can be iterated through to build
1723 up rows of table data.
1724 These two required fields (the way to find the table and the data to
1725 display in the table) are C<table_ld> and C<table_data>
1726 respectively. A little more on C<table_ld>. If this happens to be a CODE ref,
1727 then execution
1728 of the code ref is presumed to return the C<HTML::Element>
1729 representing the table in the HTML tree.
1730
1731 Next, we get the row or rows which serve as sample C<tr> elements by doing
1732 a C<look_down> from the C<table_elem>. While normally one sample row
1733 is enough to unroll a table, consider when you have alternating
1734 table rows. This API call would need one of each row so that it can
1735 cycle through the
1736 sample rows as it loops through the data.
1737 Alternatively, you could always just use one row and
1738 make the necessary changes to the single C<tr> row by
1739 mutating the element in C<tr_proc>,
1740 discussed below. The default C<tr_ld> is
1741 C<< ['_tag' => 'tr'] >> but you can overwrite it. Note well, if you overwrite
1742 it with a subroutine, then it is expected that the subroutine will return
1743 the C<HTML::Element>(s)
1744 which are C<tr> element(s).
1745 The reason a subroutine might be preferred is in the case
1746 that the HTML designers gave you 8 sample C<tr> rows but only one
1747 prototype row is needed.
1748 So you can write a subroutine, to splice out the 7 rows you don't need
1749 and leave the one sample
1750 row remaining so that this API call can clone it and supply it to
1751 the C<tr_proc> and C<td_proc> calls.
1752
1753 Now, as we move through the table rows with table data,
1754 we need to do two different things on
1755 each table row:
1756
1757 =over 4
1758
1759 =item * get one row of data from the C<table_data> via C<tr_data>
1760
1761 The default procedure assumes the C<table_data> is an array reference and
1762 shifts a row off of it:
1763
1764 sub { my ($self, $data) = @_;
1765 shift(@{$data}) ;
1766 }
1767
1768 Your function MUST return undef when there is no more rows to lay out.
1769
1770 =item * take the C<tr> element and mutate it via C<tr_proc>
1771
1772 The default procedure simply makes the id of the table row unique:
1773
1774 sub { my ($self, $tr, $tr_data, $row_count, $root_id) = @_;
1775 $tr->attr(id => sprintf "%s_%d", $root_id, $row_count);
1776 }
1777
1778 =back
1779
1780 Now that we have our row of data, we call C<td_proc> so that it can
1781 take the data and the C<td> cells in this C<tr> and process them.
1782 This function I<must> be supplied.
1783
1784
1785 =head3 Whither a Table with No Rows
1786
1787 Often when a table has no rows, we want to display a message
1788 indicating this to the view. Use conditional processing to decide what
1789 to display:
1790
1791 <span id=no_data>
1792 <table><tr><td>No Data is Good Data</td></tr></table>
1793 </span>
1794 <span id=load_data>
1795 <html>
1796
1797 <table id="load_data">
1798
1799 <tr> <th>name</th><th>age</th><th>weight</th> </tr>
1800
1801 <tr id="iterate">
1802
1803 <td id="name"> NATURE BOY RIC FLAIR </td>
1804 <td id="age"> 35 </td>
1805 <td id="weight"> 220 </td>
1806
1807 </tr>
1808
1809 </table>
1810
1811 </html>
1812
1813 </span>
1814
1815
1816
1817
1818 =head1 SEE ALSO
1819
1820 =over
1821
1822 =item * L<HTML::Tree>
1823
1824 A perl package for creating and manipulating HTML trees
1825
1826 =item * L<HTML::ElementTable>
1827
1828 An L<HTML::Tree> - based module which allows for manipulation of HTML
1829 trees using cartesian coordinations.
1830
1831 =item * L<HTML::Seamstress>
1832
1833 An L<HTML::Tree> - based module inspired by
1834 XMLC (L<http://xmlc.enhydra.org>), allowing for dynamic
1835 HTML generation via tree rewriting.
1836
1837 =head1 TODO
1838
1839 =over
1840
1841 =item * highlander2
1842
1843 currently the API expects the subtrees to survive or be pruned to be
1844 identified by id:
1845
1846 $if_then->highlander2([
1847 under10 => sub { $_[0] < 10} ,
1848 under18 => sub { $_[0] < 18} ,
1849 welcome => [
1850 sub { 1 },
1851 sub {
1852 my $branch = shift;
1853 $branch->look_down(id => 'age')->replace_content($age);
1854 }
1855 ]
1856 ],
1857 $age
1858 );
1859
1860 but, it should be more flexible. the C<under10>, and C<under18> are
1861 expected to be ids in the tree... but it is not hard to have a check to
1862 see if this field is an array reference and if it, then to do a look
1863 down instead:
1864
1865 $if_then->highlander2([
1866 [class => 'under10'] => sub { $_[0] < 10} ,
1867 [class => 'under18'] => sub { $_[0] < 18} ,
1868 [class => 'welcome'] => [
1869 sub { 1 },
1870 sub {
1871 my $branch = shift;
1872 $branch->look_down(id => 'age')->replace_content($age);
1873 }
1874 ]
1875 ],
1876 $age
1877 );
1878
1879
1880
1881 =cut
1882
1883 =head1 SEE ALSO
1884
1885 L<HTML::Seamstress>
1886
1887 =head1 AUTHOR / SOURCE
1888
1889 Terrence Brannon, E<lt>tbone@cpan.orgE<gt>
1890
1891 Many thanks to BARBIE for his RT bug report.
1892
1893 The source is at L<http://github.com/metaperl/html-element-library/tree/master>
1894
1895 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
1896
1897 Copyright (C) 2004 by Terrence Brannon
1898
1899 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
1900 it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or,
1901 at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
1902
1903
1904 =cut
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