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

  --    ``The HTML Compiler!'' 

The majority of the web pages of the internet today are 
much larger than they need to be.  The reason for this is 
that HTML tends to be stored in a human readable format, with
indenting, newlines and comments.

However, all of these comments, whitespace etc. are ignored by
the browser, and needlessly lengthen download times.

Second, many people are using WYSIWYG HTML editors these days.
This makes creating content easy.  However these editors can
cause a number of compatibility problems by tying themselves to
a particular browser or operating system.

Enter HTML::Clean.

The HTML::Clean module encapsulates a number of HTML optimizations
and cleanups.  The end result is HTML that loads faster, displays
properly in more browsers.  Think of it as a compiler that
translates HTML input into optimized machine readable code.

Uses

You can use the library in your perl-cgi scripts to optimize data.  Or
use the included htmlclean script to preprocess HTML files or templates
on your server.

The results should be pages that load faster, less load on your web 
server and better cross-platform HTML.

To read about the latest features, see the Changes file.  To find
out about known bugs and to see what's planned for future versions,
see the TODO file.


2. AVAILABILITY

You can get the latest version of the HTML::Clean module from the 
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) or from the author's homepage:

    http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/by-module/HTML/
    http://people.itu.int/~lindner/


3. PREREQUISITES

The HTML module requires the following:

    Perl 5.004

The HTML::Clean module may work with earlier versions of the above, but the
author hasn't tested this.  The latest versions can be obtained from CPAN:

    http://www.perl.org/CPAN/


4. INSTALLATION

To build this module, run the following commands:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install


5. COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999 ITU.  All rights reserved.  This program
is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
same terms as Perl itself.


6. AUTHOR INFORMATION

Paul Lindner
paul.lindner@itu.int
http://people.itu.int/~lindner/