in reply to Data structure question from XML::XPath::XMLParser

A short Mojo::DOM example to provide an alternative viewpoint:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use Mojo::DOM;

my $html = '<!doctype html>
<html class="no-focus-outline no-js" 
lang="en-US" data-modal-active="true">
<head>
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>test&nbsp;heading</h1
<div>
<p>paragraph one
<a href="https://example.com/one/two.html">one</a> example.</p>
<p>paragraph two
<a href="https://example.com/two/three.html">another</a> example.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>';

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new( $html );

foreach my $e ( $dom->find('p > a')->each ){
  say $e->{'href'};
}

# or
$dom->find('p > a')->each(sub { say $_->{'href'} } );

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If the HTML is live you can access all of the above via Mojo::UserAgent, see this example.

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Re^2: Data structure question from XML::XPath::XMLParser
by mldvx4 (Hermit) on Mar 30, 2021 at 09:52 UTC

    Would Mojo::DOM be able to handle the new HTML5 elements like <article>, <footer>, and <section> and so on? Their presence is what are choking the old HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and my reason for using Tidy to convert to valid, well-formed XML.

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      Yes, it does.

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