Howdy!

I'm having an issue using the HTML5 section tag with the HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath package. It doesn't seem to recognize the section tag as a valid tag. I simply replace it with a div tag and Wha-La! Here's the HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
  .center {text-align:center;}
</style>
<title>DIV Example</title>
</head>
<body>
  <section class=center>
    <h1>WWF</h1>
    <p>The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is....</p>
  </section>
  <section class=center>
    <h1>M4P</h1>
    <p>The Money for People Fund (MFP) is....</p>
  </section>
  <section class=center>
    <h1>WW2</h1>
    <p>The World Wide Fund for People (WWFP) is....</p>
  </section>
</body>
</html>

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Now here's the code snippet:

use strict;
use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;
use Data::Dumper;

my $file_name = qq~/usr/local/apache/htdocs/jspelkey/html5_section.htm
+l~;
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new; # empty tree
    $tree->parse_file($file_name);

    for my $result ($tree->findnodes(q{/html/body/div[@class="center"]
+})) {
       my $x = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
          $x->parse($result->as_HTML);
          print $x->findvalue(q{/h1});
          print "<br>".("-" x 17)."<br>\n";
    } 
    
    $tree = $tree->delete;

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Anybody got any ideas? Much Thanks in Advance!!

In reply to Issues using HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and the HTML5 <section> tag by ChuckP

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