3Re: How do you scan HTML?

I actually considered using XML::LibXML and XML::XPath to solve this. Personally, i don't like my solution above very much ... the HTML doesn't seem to match very well with my HTML::TokeParser::Simple solution (but i do wonder how Ovid would have solved it ;)).

I have a few nodes that demonstrate XPath:

Also, i find zvon.org's XPath Tutorial to be quite excellent. XPath is worth learning. ;)

jeffa

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Re: 3Re: How do you scan HTML? by Ovid (Cardinal) on Sep 22, 2003 at 19:43 UTC
jeffa wrote: but I do wonder how Ovid would have solved it. Ovid replies: `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use WWW::Mechanize; my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new(); $browser->get('http://www.chessgames.com'); $browser->follow_link( url_regex => qr/chessgame\?gid=\d+/ ); $browser->follow_link( text => 'view text' ); print $browser->content;` [download] I think that's a wee bit easier to follow :) Cheers, Ovid New address of my CGI Course.	[reply] [d/l]

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by Ovid (Cardinal) on Sep 22, 2003 at 19:43 UTC

jeffa wrote: but I do wonder how Ovid would have solved it.

Ovid replies:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$browser->get('http://www.chessgames.com');
$browser->follow_link( url_regex => qr/chessgame\?gid=\d+/ );
$browser->follow_link( text => 'view text' );
print $browser->content;
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I think that's a wee bit easier to follow :)

Cheers,
Ovid

New address of my CGI Course.

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