Re^2: problem parsing html


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Re^2: problem parsing html

by missingthepoint (Friar)

on Jul 16, 2009 at 09:09 UTC ( [id://780610]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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I find using CSS selectors easier, in which case you stick with HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and throw in HTML::Selector::XPath. Then:

my $selector = "#fiddlesticks li a";
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new();
my $xpath = HTML::Selector::XPath->new($selector)->to_xpath;
my @nodes = $tree->findnodes($xpath);
for my $n (@nodes) {
    print "Fiddlesticks Link: ", $n->attr('href'), "\n";
}
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