HTML::TreeBuilder ignore_ignorable problems

Hello,

I'm using TreeBuilder and am finding it useful.

I have a few questions.

one is if I turn off ingorable_whitespace as such, i get errors when
using element methods.

Here is an example:

sub get_content {
my $string = shift;
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new; # empty tree
$tree->no_space_compacting(1);
$tree->ignore_ignorable_whitespace(0);
$tree->parse($string);
$tree->eof;
#$tree->elementify;
my $content = '';
$tree = delete_unwanted_nodes($tree);
my $node = $tree->find_by_tag_name('body');
#$node = $node->nativize_pre_newlines();
my @nodes = $node->content_list();
foreach my $node (@nodes){
my $cont = $node->as_text(skip_dels => 1);



if ($cont){
$content .= $cont;
}
}
$tree = $tree->delete;
return $content;
}

i get the error: Can't call method "as_text" without a package or object
reference at ./test.pl line 152.

which of course goes away if i comment out the ignore_ignorable line.

Also the method nativize_pre_newlines is not implemented, though it is
in the docs of HTML::Element. I've written my own simple nativizer. Just
wanted to point that out.
And I've also written my own as_text_with_newlines, to get around this,
but wanted to comment on it.

Thanks for a great set of modules to Gisle and Sean!


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Possible HTML::Element patch was: ignore_ignorable problems

I discovered that what I really wanted was not ignore_ignorable

but for HTML::Element as_text to leave a space between child content
segments and not do this
if no space was at the end of the last child text bit.

Current Behavior is:
given following psuedo_html

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Re: Possible HTML::Element patch was: ignore_ignorable problems

oops. I hope that makes sense.

as_text_w_space will add a space between text bits if there is no space
at the end of an included child text segment. Current behavior of
as_text is to run those child text segment together, as in example.

deborah sciales wrote:

> I discovered that what I really wanted was not ignore_ignorable
>
> but for HTML::Element as_text to leave a space between child
> content segments and not do this
> if no space was at the end of the last child text bit.
>
> Current Behavior is:
> given following psuedo_html
>
>
>

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