[DOCPATCH 5.005_62 perlfaq9.pod] Mention HTML::FormatText

To: perl5-porters@perl.org, pod-people@perl.org
Cc: tchrist@mox.perl.com, gnat@frii.com
Message-ID: <19991110172146.A23527@athens.aocn.com>

p4raw-id: //depot/cfgperl@4569

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq9.pod b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
index 3da9bc1..7fc0cdc 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq9.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq9.pod
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ stamp prepended.
 =head2 How do I remove HTML from a string?
 
 The most correct way (albeit not the fastest) is to use HTML::Parser
-from CPAN (part of the HTML-Tree package on CPAN).
+from CPAN (part of the HTML-Tree package on CPAN).  Another correct
+way is to use HTML::FormatText which not only removes HTML but also
+attempts to do a little simple formatting of the resulting plain text.
 
 Many folks attempt a simple-minded regular expression approach, like
 C<s/E<lt>.*?E<gt>//g>, but that fails in many cases because the tags