If you used HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath it would be even more powerful.
Not for me; I don't know how to write an xpath expression.
You should really give it a try, it's one of the few fine things coming from the XML world. I once wrote a utility called xmlgrep, which uses XPath expressions for extracting things from HTML or XML files. For extracting links one would write:
GET http://www.perlmonks.org | xmlgrep -parse-html '//a/@href'
but you can also add additional conditions, for example extract only absolute links:
GET http://www.perlmonks.org | xmlgrep -parse-html '//a/@href[contains
+(.,"http://")]'
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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