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Re^2: RFC: HTML::?Filter ... suggest a name for the beast

by Jenda (Abbot)
on May 01, 2006 at 13:37 UTC ( [id://546666]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: RFC: HTML::?Filter ... suggest a name for the beast
in thread RFC: HTML::?Filter ... suggest a name for the beast

That sounds as if it depended on or belonged to the HTML::TagFilter. I would not want to stomp on someone elses namespace. So maybe rather "HTML::SimpleTagFilter".

I'd rather if we could find a way to communicate that the module is controled by a string containing the allowed tags&attribs instead of from within the code.</P

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Re^3: RFC: HTML::?Filter ... suggest a name for the beast
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on May 01, 2006 at 14:15 UTC
    Foo::Bar::Simple (or Foo::Bar::Lite) is often written by someone other than the author of Foo::Bar. This is a common practice and well accepted by the community. If you have any concerns, ask modules@perl.org and they'll help out.

    My criteria for good software:
    1. Does it work?
    2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

      Well, yes, actually one of my modules follows this naming style. Win32::Daemon::Simple provides a simplified (yet at the same time extended) interface to Win32::Daemon. The thing is that HTML::?Filter doesn't use HTML::TagFilter. Then there's CGI::Simple that provides part of the CGI.pm functionality and thus the code of the module is simpler ... this is not the case either. HTML::?Filter is totally independent to HTML::TagFilter. I did not know about HTML::TagFilter (if it even was already on CPAN which I doubt) when writing HTML::?Filter.

Re^3: RFC: HTML::?Filter ... suggest a name for the beast
by wazoox (Prior) on May 01, 2006 at 21:25 UTC
    Maybe something in the way your module's working can give someone an idea? What about posting the POD of the module here, to see it it lights a bulb somewhere?

      There's not a lot to document so I think the synopsis will suffice:

      use HTML::JFilter; my $filter = new HTML::JFilter <<'*END*' b i code pre br a: href name font: color size style *END* $filteredHTML = $filter->doSTRING($enteredHTML); $filter->doFILE($inputfile, $outputfile);

      I don't like the interface either actually. Maybe the methods should be Filter() and FilterFile(). Or maybe I could provide a functional interface instead or in adition:

      my $filter = HTML::JFilter::MakeFilter ($allowed_tags); $filtered = $filter->( $html);

        Yep, I vote for "Filter()" and "FilterFile()" instead... For the module, what do you think of HTML::Sieve as a name ?

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