SYNOPSIS

use HTML::FormatText::Vilistextum;
$text = HTML::FormatText::Vilistextum->format_file ($filename);
$text = HTML::FormatText::Vilistextum->format_string ($html_string);
$formatter = HTML::FormatText::Vilistextum->new;
$tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
$text = $formatter->format ($tree);

DESCRIPTION

"HTML::FormatText::Vilistextum" turns HTML into plain text using the "vilistextum" program.

<http://bhaak.net/vilistextum/>

The module interface is compatible with formatters like "HTML::FormatText", but all parsing etc is done by vilistextum.

See "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions and options, with the following caveats,

"input_charset"

There's no "input_charset" option yet. ("vilistextum" has a "-y" option but it might be only a default, with the document "<meta>" taking precedence, whereas the intention of "input_charset" is to override the document.)

"output_charset"

Charset ``UTF-8'' can be given for UTF-8 output. This passes "-u" to "vilistextum", which is only available if built with "--enable-multibyte" (as of its version 2.6.9).

HOME PAGE

<http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html>

LICENSE

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde

HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.