Re: Using HTML::TreeBuilder to change the DOCTYPE declaration

in reply to Using HTML::TreeBuilder to change the DOCTYPE declaration

The doctype is stored as an attribute of the root element where the attribute name is "_decl" and the value is an HTML::Element object, so basically, you want

my $ele = $root->look_down(
   _decl => ...was specified...,
) or die qq{declaration not found\n};

my $dec = $ele->attr('_decl');
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Since look_down doesn't allow us to check if an attribute was specified we'll have to provide our own handler.

my $ele = $root->look_down(
   sub { $_[0]->attr('_decl') }
) or die qq{declaration not found\n};

my $dec = $ele->attr('_decl');
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But why use look_down at all? The only possible node it could return is the root node. The above code boils down to

my $dec = $root->attr('_decl')
   or die qq{declaration not found\n};
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Now that we have the declaration, let's move on to changing it. It makes no sense to use splice_content to modify attributes. attr is the proper method.

$dec->attr(text => 'DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "HTML4"');
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Since the entire purpose is to replace the declaration, let's create a new declaration rather than dying if it's absent.

$root->attr('_decl',
   HTML::Element->new('~declaration',
      text => 'DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "HTML4"',
   )
);
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All together:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $content = do{local $/;<DATA>};
my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($content);

$root->attr('_decl',
   HTML::Element->new('~declaration',
      text => 'DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "HTML4"',
   )
);

print $root->as_HTML;

__DATA__
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "XHTML">
<html>
<head><title>declaration</title></head>
<body><p>declaration</p></body>
</html>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "HTML4">
<html><head><title>declaration</title></head><body><p>declaration</bod
+y></html>
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