HTML::Object::Root(3)

📦 version 0.6.0, in alpine 3.24

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, you're on the HTML::Object::Root(3) page — manual name folded in near the top like a lil name tag 🏷️✨. The module is HTML::Object::Root, and its summary is literally HTML Object.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use HTML::Object::Root;
my $root = HTML::Object::Root->new ||
    die( HTML::Object::Root->error, "\n" );

🌈 VERSION 🌈

v0.2.0 — that's the version, no cap.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This module represents a "Root" element. It inherits from HTML::Object::Document.

👑 INHERITANCE 👑

+-----------------------+     +------------------------+     +--------------------+
| HTML::Object::Element | --> | HTML::Object::Document | --> | HTML::Object::Root |
+-----------------------+     +------------------------+     +--------------------+

🎀 PROPERTIES 🎀

nodeValue

Returns or sets the value of the current node.

For document, element or collection, this returns undef; for attribute, text or comment, this returns the object value.

See for more information https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/nodeValue.

🔥 METHODS 🔥

💅 cmp

Provided with an element, and this returns true if this element is a Root element, or false otherwise.

🫶 getAttributes

Returns a new empty array object.

🌸 getChildNodes

Returns the value returned by root.

🐚 getName

Returns undef if scalar context and an empty list in list context.

⭐ getNextSibling

Returns undef if scalar context and an empty list in list context.

🍓 getParentNode

Returns undef if scalar context and an empty list in list context.

🧚 getPreviousSibling

Returns undef if scalar context and an empty list in list context.

👑 getRootNode

Returns the current object since there is no higher element than itself.

💀 is_inside

Returns 0, i.e. false.

✅ isDocumentNode

Returns 1, i.e. true.

🌈 lineage

Returns a new array object with the current object as its sole element.

🦋 root

Returns the element object representing the actual root element.

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

Jacques Deguest <jack@deguest.jp> — author icon behavior 👑.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

  • HTML::Object
  • HTML::Object::Attribute
  • HTML::Object::Boolean
  • HTML::Object::Closing
  • HTML::Object::Collection
  • HTML::Object::Comment
  • HTML::Object::Declaration
  • HTML::Object::Document
  • HTML::Object::Element
  • HTML::Object::Exception
  • HTML::Object::Literal
  • HTML::Object::Number
  • HTML::Object::Root
  • HTML::Object::Space
  • HTML::Object::Text
  • HTML::Object::XQuery

Copyright (c) 2021 DEGUEST Pte. Ltd.

All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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