WWW::Mechanize::Chrome curiously fails the XHTML test, which I've tentatively reported as a Chromium / DevTools bug. The HTML rendering and DOM inspector properly parse the HTML, but the DevTools return "Six" as a node, which isn't really true.

The code also uncovered a bugs/unexpected behaviour in how the link text gets constructed, so I'll upload a fixed version of WWW::Mechanize::Chrome soon.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $file = shift or die;
print "##### WWW::Mechanize::Chrome on $file #####\n";
my $html = do { open my $fh, '<', $file or die "$file: $!"; local $/; 
+<$fh> };

use Log::Log4perl ':easy';
use WWW::Mechanize::Chrome;
Log::Log4perl->easy_init($WARN);
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Chrome->new( headless => 1);
$mech->update_html($html);

my @links = $mech->links();
for my $link (grep { $_->url } @links) {
    print $link->url, "\t", $link->text, "\n";
}

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Update: Actually, as the page itself contains "confusing" (to Chrome) information, this is somewhat explainable. The HTML is XML, but it later declares a Content-Type of text/html. Changing that to Content-Type text/xhtml makes (WWW::Mechanize::)Chrome report the correct links.

I still wonder if this parser confusion between DevTools and Javascript could be exploited somehow.

In reply to Re: Why a regex *really* isn't good enough for HTML, even for "simple" tasks by Corion
in thread Why a regex *really* isn't good enough for HTML and XML, even for "simple" tasks by haukex

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