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1 <!DOCTYPE html>
2 <html lang="en">
3 <head>
4 <title>Whatpm &mdash; Perl Modules for Web Hypertext Application
5 Technologies (beta)</title>
6 <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/style/html/xhtml">
7 <link rel="license" href="#license">
8 <link rel="author" href="#author">
9 </head>
10 <body>
11 <h1>Whatpm (<em>beta</em>)</h1>
12
13 <div class="section" id="introduction">
14 <h2>Introduction</h2>
15
16 <p><dfn>Whatpm</dfn> is a <em>work-in-progress</em> set of <m>P</m>erl
17 <m>m</m>odules for <m>W</m>eb <m>h</m>ypertext <m>a</m>pplication
18 <m>t</m>echnologies. It is part
19 of the <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/" rel=up>manakai</a>
20 project.</p>
21
22 <dl>
23 <dt>Modules</dt>
24 <dd><dl>
25 <dt><a href="Whatpm/CacheManifest.html"><code>Whatpm::CacheManifest</code></a></dt>
26 <dd>An
27 <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#manifests">HTML5
28 cache manifest</a> parser.</dd>
29 <dt id=whatpm-charset-universalchardet><a href="Whatpm/Charset/UniversalCharDet.html"><code>Whatpm::Charset::UniversalCharDet</code></a></dt>
30 <dd>A Perl interface to universalchardet character encoding detection
31 library.</dd>
32 <dt><a href="Whatpm/ContentChecker.html"><code>Whatpm::ContentChecker</code></a></dt>
33 <dd>A DOM5 HTML (in-memory representation of a document) conformance
34 checker with a partial support for Atom 1.0. (See also
35 <a href="#demo-html-parser">demo</a>.)</dd>
36 <dt><a href="Whatpm/ContentType.html"><code>Whatpm::ContentType</code></a></dt>
37 <dd>An implementation of HTML5 Content Type sniffing algorithm.</dd>
38
39 <dt><a href="Whatpm/CSS/Cascade.html"><code>Whatpm::CSS::Cascade</code></a>
40 <dd>A media-independent implementation of CSS cascading and value
41 computation. (See also <a href="#demo-css-parser">demo</a>.)
42 <dt><a href="Whatpm/CSS/Parser.html"><code>Whatpm::CSS::Parser</code></a>
43 <dd>A CSS parser that constructs CSSOM trees from style sheets. (See
44 also <a href="#demo-css-parser">demo</a>.)
45
46 <dt><a href="Whatpm/CSS/SelectorsParser.html"><code>Whatpm::CSS::SelectorsParser</code></a></dt>
47 <dd>A <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#grouping">group of
48 selectors</a> parser. (See also <a href="#demo-css-parser">demo</a>.)</dd>
49 <dt><a href="Whatpm/CSS/SelectorsSerializer.html"><code>Whatpm::CSS::SelectorsSerializer</code></a></dt>
50 <dd>A <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#grouping">group of
51 selectors</a> serializer. (See also <a href="#spec-ssft">specification</a>
52 and <a href="#demo-css-parser">demo</a>.)</dd>
53 <dt><a href="Whatpm/CSS/Tokenizer.html"><code>Whatpm::CSS::Tokenizer</code></a></dt>
54 <dd>A CSS tokenizer. (See also <a href="#demo-css-parser">demo</a>.)</dd>
55 <dt id=module-whatpm-html><a href="Whatpm/HTML.html"><code>Whatpm::HTML</code></a></dt>
56 <dd>An implementation of HTML5 document and fragment
57 parsing algorithms. It can be used
58 to convert an arbitrary string into a
59 <abbr title="Document Object Model">DOM</abbr>. (See also
60 <a href="#demo-html-parser">demo</a>.)</dd>
61 <dt id=module-whatpm-html-serializer><a href="Whatpm/HTML/Serializer.html"><code>Whatpm::HTML::Serializer</code></a></dt>
62 <dd>An implementation of HTML5 fragment serialization algorithm.
63 (See also <a href="#demo-html-parser">demo</a>.)</dd>
64 <dt><a href="Whatpm/HTMLTable.html"><code>Whatpm::HTMLTable</code></a></dt>
65 <dd>An implementation of the HTML5 table algorithm. It can be
66 used to extract a table structure from a DOM <code>table</code>
67 element node. (See also <a href="#demo-html-table">demo</a>.)</dd>
68 <dt><a href="Whatpm/IMTChecker.html"><code>Whatpm::IMTChecker</code></a></dt>
69 <dd>An Internet Media Type (<abbr>aka</abbr> MIME type) label
70 conformance checker.</dd>
71
72 <dt><a href="Whatpm/URIChecker.html"><code>Whatpm::URIChecker</code></a></dt>
73 <dd>An IRI reference conformance checker.</dd>
74
75 <dt><a href="Whatpm/WebIDL.html"><code>Whatpm::WebIDL</code></a></dt>
76 <dd>A WebIDL fragment parser. It parses an IDL fragment, whether conforming
77 or not, and constructs a DOM-like object model for further processing.
78 Non-conforming (or broken) IDL fragment-like string will be parsed using
79 CSS-like error-tolerant parsing rules, e.g. ignoring anything until next
80 <code>;</code> character.
81
82 <dt><a href="Whatpm/LangTag.html"><code>Whatpm::LangTag</code></a>
83 <dd>A language tag parser and conformance checker, supporting both
84 older RFC 3066 definition and latest RFC 4646 definition. (See also
85 <a href="#demo-langtag">demo</a>.)
86
87 <dt><a href="Whatpm/XMLSerializer.html"><code>Whatpm::XMLSerializer</code></a></dt>
88 <dd>A simple XML serializer.</dd>
89 </dl>
90
91 <p>Note that all of these modules are <em>work in progress</em>
92 and have <a href="#todo">a number of unresolved problems</a>.</p>
93
94 <p>Note also that some modules have no documentation for now.</p>
95 </dd>
96 <dt id=spec>Specifications</dt>
97 <dd><dl>
98 <dt id=spec-ssft><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/markup/selectors/ssft/ssft"><abbr title="Selectors Serialization Format for Testing">SSFT</abbr>
99 Specification</a></dt>
100 <dd>The specification for the serialization format used for
101 testing Selectors-related modules.</dd>
102 <dt id=spec-manakai-selectors"><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2005/sw/manakai/Selectors%20Extensions">manakai's
103 Selectors Extensions</a></dt>
104 <dd>The specification for <code>:-manakai-<var>*</var></code>
105 pseudo-classes implemented by Selectors-related modules.</dd>
106 </dl></dd>
107 <dt>Documentations</dt>
108 <dd><dl>
109 <dt><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2005/sw/Whatpm%20Error%20Types">List of error types</a></dt>
110 <dd>Description of errors to be notified to callback functions by Whatpm
111 modules.</dd>
112 <dt><a href="Whatpm/CSS/selectors-object">Selectors object</a></dt>
113 <dd>Description of data structure for Selectors, as implemented by
114 <a href="Whatpm/CSS/SelectorsParser.html"><code>Whatpm::CSS::SelectorsParser</code></a>
115 (as output), and
116 <a href="Whatpm/CSS/SelectorsSerializer.html"><code>Whatpm::CSS::SelectorsSerializer</code></a>
117 (as input)<!--, and
118 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/manakai-core/lib/Message/DOM/SelectorsAPI.html"><code>Message::DOM::SelectorsAPI</code></a>-->.</dd>
119 <dt id=doc-user-data-names><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2005/sw/manakai/Predefined%20User%20Data%20Names">List of predefined user data names</a></dt>
120 <dd>List of user data names defined by Whatpm modules.</dd>
121 <dt id=doc-handles><a href="Whatpm/Charset/handles">Handle objects</a>
122 <dd>Description of character or byte stream input handle interfaces.
123 </dl>
124 </dd>
125 </dl>
126 <!-- Whatpm::ContentChecker::*, Whatpm::H2H, Whatpm::NanoDOM, and
127 Whatpm::XMLParser are intentionally omitted from the list. -->
128 </div>
129
130 <div class="section" id="demo">
131 <h2>Demo</h2>
132
133 <ul>
134 <li id=demo-html-parser-nanodom><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2007/html/parser-interface">HTML5 parser
135 and checker demo</a>
136 (<a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/cvs/*checkout*/webroot/gate/2007/html/parser.cgi">source</a>,
137 with <a href="Whatpm/NanoDOM.html">a lightweight non-conforming
138 DOM implementation</a>)</li>
139 <li id=demo-html-parser-manakai><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2007/html/parser-manakai-interface">HTML5
140 parser and checker demo, with manakai's DOM implementation</a>
141 (<a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/cvs/*checkout*/webroot/gate/2007/html/parser-manakai.cgi">source</a>)</li>
142 <li id=demo-html-table><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2007/html/table-interface">HTML5 table
143 structure visualization demo</a>
144 (<a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/cvs/*checkout*/webroot/gate/2007/html/table.cgi">source</a>)</li>
145
146 <li id=demo-css-parser><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2007/css/parser-interface">CSS
147 tokenizer, parser, and computed style computation demo</a>
148 (<a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/cvs/*checkout*/webroot/gate/2007/css/parser.cgi">source</a>)</li>
149
150 <li id=demo-langtag><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2007/langtag/langtag-demo-interface">Language
151 tag parsing and conformance checking demo</a>
152 (<a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/cvs/*checkout*/webroot/gate/2007/langtag/langtag-demo.cgi">source</a>)
153 </ul>
154 </div>
155
156 <div class=section id=applications>
157 <h2>Application</h2>
158
159 <ul>
160 <li><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/2007/html/cc/"><abbr>WebHACC</abbr>
161 (Web hypertext application conformance checker)</a>
162 </ul>
163 </div>
164
165 <div class="section" id="dependency">
166 <h2>Dependency</h2>
167
168 <dl>
169 <dt id=dependency-perl>Perl 5.8 or later</dt>
170 <dd>It is recommended to use newer stable release of Perl 5.8 (or
171 later).</dd>
172 <dd id=dependency-encode>Some modules require <code>Encode</code>
173 modules, which are part of standard Perl distribution.</dd>
174 <dt id=dependency-manakai-core>Modules from
175 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/">manakai-core</a></dt>
176 <dd>
177 <dl>
178 <dt id=dependency-error><a href="http://search.cpan.org/author/SHLOMIF/Error-0.17009/lib/Error.pm"><code>Error</code></a></dt>
179 <dd>Module <code>Whatpm::HTML</code> requires <code>Error</code>,
180 which is bundled in
181 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/">manakai-core</a>.</dd>
182 <dt><code>Message::IMT::InternetMediaType</code></dt>
183 <dd>Module <code>Whatpm::IMTChecker</code> depends on
184 <code>Message::IMT::InternetMediaType</code>, which is part of
185 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/">manakai-core</a>.</dd>
186 <dt><code>Message::URI::URIReference</code></dt>
187 <dd>Modules <code>Whatpm::URIChecker</code> and
188 <code>Whatpm::CacheManifest</code> depend on
189 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/manakai-core/lib/Message/URI/URIReference.html"><code>Message::URI::URIReference</code></a>,
190 which is part of
191 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/">manakai-core</a>.</dd>
192 <dt><code>Message::Charset::Info</code></dt>
193 <dd>Module <code>Whatpm::ContentChecker</code> depends on
194 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/manakai-core/lib/Message/Charset/Info.html"><code>Message::Charset::Info</code></a>,
195 which is part of
196 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/">manakai-core</a>.</dd>
197 <dt><code>Message::DOM::DOMImplementation</code>
198 <dd>Module <code>Whatpm::URIChecker</code> depends on
199 <code>Message::DOM::DOMImplementation</code>,
200 which is part of
201 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/">manakai-core</a>.
202 <dt><code>Message::DOM::DOMImplementation</code> and related modules</dt>
203 <dd><em>Testing</em> for module <code>Whatpm::ContentChecker</code>
204 depends on <code>Message::DOM::DOMImplementation</code> and related modules
205 in <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/">manakai-core</a>.
206 They are not required in practice.</dd>
207 </dl>
208 </dd>
209 <dt><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/manakai-charlib/readme">manakai
210 charlib</a></dt>
211 <dd>Module <code>Whatpm::Charset::DecodeHandle</code> depends on
212 modules in <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/manakai-charlib/readme">manakai
213 charlib</a> for decoding of <em>Japanese character encodings</em>.
214 See the documentation for
215 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/manakai-charlib/readme">manakai
216 charlib</a> for more information.</dd>
217 <dt><a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>, Perl
218 <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~neilw/Inline-Python-0.22/"><code>Inline::Python</code></a>
219 module, and <a href="http://chardet.feedparser.org/">Universal Encoding
220 Detector</a></dt>
221 <dd>For the module <code>Whatpm::Charset::UniversalCharDet</code> being
222 meaningful, these softwares are required on the system. See the
223 <a href="Whatpm/Charset/UniversalCharDet.html#dependency">documentation</a>
224 for more information.</dd>
225 <dt><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-1.14/"><code>JSON</code></a></dt>
226 <dd><em>Testing</em> for modules <code>Whatpm::HTML</code> and
227 <code>Whatpm::CSS::Tokenizer</code>
228 depends on <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-1.14/"><code>JSON</code> and related modules</a>.
229 They are not required in practice.</dd>
230 </dl>
231 </div>
232
233 <div class="section" id="download">
234 <h2>Distribution</h2>
235
236 <p>The development version of Whatpm may be found in the
237 <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/cvs/markup/html/whatpm/">CVS
238 repository</a>.</p>
239
240 <p><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/gate/cvs/markup/html/whatpm/whatpm.tar.gz?tarball=1">The
241 latest developmenet version of the Whatpm</a> is also available as a
242 tarball.
243
244 </div>
245
246 <div class="section" id="todo">
247 <h2>TO DO</h2>
248
249 <ul>
250 <li>Bug fix (Test results:
251 <a href="t/content-type-result"><code>Whatpm::ContentType</code></a>,
252 <a href="t/tokenizer-result">HTML tokenization</a>,
253 <a href="t/tree-construction-result">HTML tree construction</a>,
254 <a href="t/content-checker-result"><code>Whatpm::ContentChecker</code></a>).</li>
255 <li>Merge with the <a href="http://suika.fam.cx/www/2006/manakai/">manakai-core</a>
256 code tree.
257 <li>Charset detection.</li>
258 <li>Validation for <code>meta</code>.</li>
259 <li>Validation for media queries, IRIs (against URI schemes), language tags,
260 and so on.</li>
261 <li>Documentations are missing for some features.</li>
262 <li>XML parser<!-- with application cache selection algorithm hook-->.</li>
263 <li>In addition, each module has its own TO DO items.
264 (Search for <q>## TODO</q> and <q>## ISSUE</q> in each module.)</li>
265 </ul>
266 </div>
267
268 <div class=section id=acknowledgments>
269 <h2>Acknowledgments</h2>
270
271 <p>Thanks to the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/">html5lib</a>
272 team for their
273 <a href="http://html5lib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/testdata/">HTML5
274 parser test data</a>.</p>
275 </div>
276
277 <div class="section" id="author">
278 <h2>Author</h2>
279
280 <p><a href="http://suika.fam.cx/~wakaba/who?" rel="author">Wakaba</a>.</p>
281 </div>
282
283 <div class="section" id="license">
284 <h2>License</h2>
285
286 <p>Copyright 2007$B!>(B2008 Wakaba
287 <code class="mail">&lt;<a href="mailto:w@suika.fam.cx"
288 rel="author">w@suika.fam.cx</a>></code>.</p>
289
290 <p>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
291 it under the same terms as Perl itself.</p>
292 </div>
293
294 </body>
295 </html>

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