by Sean M. Burke

O'Reilly Media

PART I: PART I RTF Tutorial This book is a convenient reference for Rich Text Format (RTF). It covers the essentials of RTF, especially the parts that you need to know if you’re writing a program to gener- ate RTF files. This book is also a useful introduction to pars- ing RTF, although that is a more complex task. RTF is a document format. RTF is not intended to be a markup language anyone would use for coding entire docu- ments by hand (although it has been done!). Instead, it’s meant to be a format for document data that all sorts of pro- grams can read and write. For example, if you even just skim this book, you should be able to write a program (in the pro- gramming language of your choice) that can analyze the con- tents of a database and produce a summary of it as an

(2008)

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by Sean M. Burke

O'Reilly Media

Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Web Automation LWP (short for “Library for World Wide Web in Perl”) is a set of Perl modules and object-oriented classes for getting data from the Web and for extracting information from HTML. This chapter provides essential background on the LWP suite. It describes the nature and history of LWP, which platforms it runs on, and how to download and install it. This chapter ends with a quick walkthrough of several LWP programs that illustrate common tasks, such as fetching web pages, extracting infor- mation using regular expressions, and submitting forms. The Web as Data Source Most web sites are designed for people. User Interface gurus consult for large sums of money to build HTML code that is easy to use and displays correctly on all brows- ers. User Experience gurus wag their fingers and tell web designers to study their users, so they

(2007)

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