Whatpm — Perl Modules for Web Hypertext Application Technologies (beta)

Introduction

Whatpm is a work-in-progress set of Perl modules for Web hypertext application technologies. It is part of the manakai project.

Modules

Whatpm::CacheManifest: An HTML5 cache manifest parser.
Whatpm::ContentChecker: A DOM5 HTML (in-memory representation of a document) conformance checker with a partial support for Atom 1.0. (See also demo.)
Whatpm::ContentType: An implementation of HTML5 Content Type sniffing algorithm.
Whatpm::CSS::SelectorsParser: A group of selectors parser. (See also demo.)
Whatpm::CSS::SelectorsSerializer: A group of selectors serializer. (See also specification and demo.)
Whatpm::CSS::Tokenizer: A CSS tokenizer. (See also demo.)
Whatpm::HTML: An implementation of HTML5 document and fragment parsing algorithms. It can be used to convert an arbitrary string into a DOM. (See also demo.)
Whatpm::HTML::Serializer: An implementation of HTML5 fragment serialization algorithm. (See also demo.)
Whatpm::HTMLTable: An implementation of the HTML5 table algorithm. It can be used to extract a table structure from a DOM table element node. (See also demo.)
Whatpm::IMTChecker: An Internet Media Type (aka MIME type) label conformance checker.
Whatpm::URIChecker: An IRI reference conformance checker.
Whatpm::XMLSerializer: A simple XML serializer.

Note that all of these modules are work in progress and have a number of unresolved problems.

Note also that some modules have no documentation for now.

Specification

SSFT Specification: The specification for the serialization format used for testing Selectors-related modules.
manakai's Selectors Extensions: The specification for :-manakai-* pseudo-classes implemented by Selectors-related modules.

Documentations

List of error types: Description of errors to be notified to callback functions by Whatpm modules.

Description of data structure for Selectors, as implemented by Whatpm::CSS::SelectorsParser (as output), and Whatpm::CSS::SelectorsSerializer (as input).

Perl 5.8 or later: It is recommended to use newer stable release of Perl 5.8 (or later).; Some modules require Encode modules, which are part of standard Perl distribution.
Error: Module Whatpm::HTML requires Error, which is bundled in manakai.
Message::IMT::InternetMediaType: Module Whatpm::IMTChecker depends on Message::IMT::InternetMediaType, which is part of manakai.
Message::URI::URIReference: Modules Whatpm::URIChecker and Whatpm::CacheManifest depend on Message::URI::URIReference, which is part of manakai.
manakai charlib: Module Whatpm::Charset::DeocdeHandle depends on modules in manakai charlib for decoding of Japanese character encodings. See the documentation for manakai charlib for more information.
Message::DOM::DOMImplementation and related modules: Testing for module Whatpm::ContentChecker depends on Message::DOM::DOMImplementation and related modules in manakai. They are not required in practice.
JSON: Testing for modules Whatpm::HTML and Whatpm::CSS::Tokenizer depends on JSON and related modules. They are not required in practice.

The development version of Whatpm may be found in the CVS repository.

Bug fix (Test results: Whatpm::ContentType, HTML tokenization, HTML tree construction, Whatpm::ContentChecker).
Charset detection.
Validation for meta.
Validation for media queries, IRIs (against URI schemes), language tags, and so on.
Documentations are missing for some features.
XML parser.
In addition, each module has its own TO DO items. (Search for ## TODO and ## ISSUE in each module.)

Thanks to the html5lib team for their HTML5 parser test data.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.