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+package WWW::Mechanize::Link;
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+=head1 NAME
+
+WWW::Mechanize::Link - Link object for WWW::Mechanize
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+Link object to encapsulate all the stuff that Mech needs but nobody
+wants to deal with as an array.
+
+=head1 Constructor
+
+=head2 new()
+
+ my $link = WWW::Mechanize::Link->new( {
+ url => $url,
+ text => $text,
+ name => $name,
+ tag => $tag,
+ base => $base,
+ attr => $attr_href,
+ } );
+
+For compatibility, this older interface is also supported:
+
+ new( $url, $text, $name, $tag, $base, $attr_href )
+
+Creates and returns a new C<WWW::Mechanize::Link> object.
+
+=cut
+
+sub new {
+ my $class = shift;
+
+ my $self;
+
+ # The order of the first four must stay as they are for
+ # compatibility with older code.
+ if ( ref $_[0] eq 'HASH' ) {
+ $self = [ @{$_[0]}{ qw( url text name tag base attrs ) } ];
+ }
+ else {
+ $self = [ @_ ];
+ }
+
+ return bless $self, $class;
+}
+
+=head1 Accessors
+
+=head2 $link->url()
+
+URL from the link
+
+=head2 $link->text()
+
+Text of the link
+
+=head2 $link->name()
+
+NAME attribute from the source tag, if any.
+
+=head2 $link->tag()
+
+Tag name (one of: "a", "area", "frame", "iframe" or "meta").
+
+=head2 $link->base()
+
+Base URL to which the links are relative.
+
+=head2 $link->attrs()
+
+Returns hash ref of all the attributes and attribute values in the tag.
+
+=cut
+
+sub url { return ($_[0])->[0]; }
+sub text { return ($_[0])->[1]; }
+sub name { return ($_[0])->[2]; }
+sub tag { return ($_[0])->[3]; }
+sub base { return ($_[0])->[4]; }
+sub attrs { return ($_[0])->[5]; }
+
+=head2 $link->URI()
+
+Returns the URL as a L<URI::URL> object.
+
+=cut
+
+sub URI {
+ my $self = shift;
+
+ require URI::URL;
+ my $URI = URI::URL->new( $self->url, $self->base );
+
+ return $URI;
+}
+
+=head2 $link->url_abs()
+
+Returns a URI::URL object for the absolute form of the string.
+
+=cut
+
+sub url_abs {
+ my $self = shift;
+
+ return $self->URI->abs;
+}
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+L<WWW::Mechanize>
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT
+
+Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Andy Lester. All rights reserved. This program is
+free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
+terms as Perl itself.
+
+=cut
+
+# vi:et:sw=4 ts=4
+
+1;