Whatpm (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::ContentChecker

A DOM5 HTML (in-memory representation of a document) conformance checker with a partial support for Atom 1.0.

Whatpm::ContentType

An implementation of HTML5 Content Type sniffing algorithm.

Whatpm::HTML

An implementation of HTML5 parsing algorithm, fragment parsing, and fragment serialization algorithms. It can be used to convert a string into DOM, or vice versa.

Whatpm::HTMLTable

An implementation of the HTML5 table algorithm. It can be used to extract a table structure from a DOM table element node.

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.

Documentation

List of error types

Description of errors to be notified to callback functions by Whatpm modules.

Demo

• HTML5 parser and checker demo
• HTML5 parser and checker demo, with manakai's DOM implementation
• HTML5 table structure visualization demo

Dependency

Perl 5.8 or later

It is recommended to use newer release of Perl 5.8 or later.

Message::IMT::InternetMediaType

Whatpm::IMTChecker depends on Message::IMT::InternetMediaType, which is part of manakai.

Message::URI::URIReference

Whatpm::URIChecker depends on Message::URI::URIReference, which is part of manakai.

manakai charlib

Whatpm::Charset::DeocdeHandle depends on modules in manakai charlib for decoding Japanese character encodings. See the documentation for manakai charlib for more information.

Message::DOM::DOMImplementation and related modules

Testing for Whatpm::ContentChecker depends on Message::DOM::DOMImplementation and related modules in manakai. They are not required in practice.

JSON

Testing for Whatpm::HTML depends on JSON and related modules. They are not required in practice.

Distribution

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

TO DO

• 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.
• Whatpm is a code name in fact. Please let me know if you have a better name.
• In addition, each module has its own TO DO items. (Search for ## TODO and ## ISSUE in each module.)

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the html5lib team for HTML5 parser test data.

Author

Wakaba.

License

Copyright 2007 Wakaba <w@suika.fam.cx>.

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