our @ISA = qw(HTML::Element HTML::Parser); # This looks schizoid, I know... #### use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath; my $file = 'example.html'; my @result; my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new; $tree->empty_element_tags(1); # calls this on HTML::Parser $tree->parse_file($file); $tree->eof; my @divs = $tree->findnodes('//div[@class="data"]'); for my $div (@divs) { my $text = $div->as_text || ''; $text =~ s/\W//g; push(@result, $div->attr('id') . "=$text"); } print join(', ',@result); #### Zero=, One=Monday, Two=Tuesday, Three=Wednesday, Four=Thursday, Five=Friday, Six=Saturday, Seven=Sunday