HTML::Clean - Cleans up HTML code for web browsers, not humans

       Paul Lindner for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

       Pavel Kuptsov <admin@modernperl.ru>

       The HTML::Strip module is Copyright (c) 1998,99 by the ITU, Geneva Switzerland.  All rights reserved.

       You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License or the Artistic  License,  as
       specified in the Perl README file.

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-10-15                                   HTML::Clean(3pm)

       The HTML::Clean module encapsulates a number of common techniques for minimizing the size of HTML files.
       You can typically save between 10% and 50% of the size of a HTML file using these methods.  It provides
       the following features:

       Remove unneeded whitespace (beginning of line, etc)
       Remove unneeded META elements.
       Remove HTML comments (except for styles, javascript and SSI)
       Replace tags with equivalent shorter tags (<strong> --> <b>)
       etc.

       The entire process is configurable, so you can pick and choose what you want to clean.

       HTML::Clean - Cleans up HTML code for web browsers, not humans

Modules
       FrontPage::Web, FrontPage::File

   WebSites
       Distribution Site - http://people.itu.int/~lindner/

         use HTML::Clean;
         $h = HTML::Clean->new($filename); # or..
         $h = HTML::Clean->new($htmlcode);

         $h->compat();
         $h->strip();
         $data = $h->data();
         print $$data;

$h=HTML::Clean->new($dataorfile,[$level]);
       This creates a new HTML::Clean object.  A Prerequisite for all other functions in this module.

       The  $dataorfile  parameter  supplies the input HTML, either a filename, or a reference to a scalar value
       holding the HTML, for example:

         $h = HTML::Clean->new("/htdocs/index.html");
         $html = "<strong>Hello!</strong>";
         $h = HTML::Clean->new(\$html);

       An optional 'level' parameter controls the level of optimization performed.  Levels range from  1  to  9.
       Level 1 includes only simple fast optimizations.  Level 9 includes all optimizations.

   $h->initialize($dataorfile)
       This function allows you to reinitialize the HTML data used by the current object.  This is useful if you
       are processing many files.

       $dataorfile has the same usage as the new method.

       Return 0 for an error, 1 for success.

   $h->level([$level])
       Get/set the optimization level.  $level is a number from 1 to 9.

   $myref=$h->data()
       Returns the current HTML data as a scalar reference.

   strip(\%options);
       Removes excess space from HTML

       You can control the optimizations used by specifying them in the %options hash reference.

       The following options are recognized:

       boolean values (0 or 1 values)
                 whitespace    Remove excess whitespace
                 shortertags   <strong> -> <b>, etc..
                 blink         No blink tags.
                 contenttype   Remove default contenttype.
                 comments      Remove excess comments.
                 entities      &quot; -> ", etc.
                 dequote       remove quotes from tag parameters where possible.
                 defcolor      recode colors in shorter form. (#ffffff -> white, etc.)
                 javascript    remove excess spaces and newlines in javascript code.
                 htmldefaults  remove default values for some html tags
                 lowercasetags translate all HTML tags to lowercase

       parameterized values
                 meta        Takes a space separated list of meta tags to remove,
                             default "GENERATOR FORMATTER"

                 emptytags   Takes a space separated list of tags to remove when there is no
                             content between the start and end tag, like this: <b></b>.
                             The default is 'b i font center'

       Please  note  that if your HTML includes preformatted regions (this means, if it includes <pre>...</pre>,
       we do not suggest removing whitespace, as it will alter the rendered defaults.

       HTML::Clean will print out a warning if it  finds  a  preformatted  region  and  is  requested  to  strip
       whitespace. In order to prevent this, specify that you don't want to strip whitespace - i.e.

         $h->strip( {whitespace => 0} );

   compat()
       This function improves the cross-platform compatibility of your HTML.  Currently checks for the following
       problems:

       Insuring all IMG tags have ALT elements.
       Use of Arial, Futura, or Verdana as a font face.
       Positioning the <TITLE> tag immediately after the <head> tag.

   defrontpage();
       This  function converts pages created with Microsoft Frontpage to something a Unix server will understand
       a bit better.  This function currently does the following:

       Converts Frontpage 'hit counters' into a unix specific format.
       Removes some frontpage specific html comments