but as a side effect, I lose all HTML tags between the DIVs
??? HTML::Parser "tokenizes" all input (for the most part), and calls appropriate handlers.

What happens to the "html" is that it gets parsed, turned into tokens, passeed as arguments to the handlers...

To preserve the html, you have to recreate it out of the tokens, and store it someplace...

Looking at you code snippet, and what you're trying to do, it looks like you would be better off using HTML::TokeParser (an alternative interface to HTML::Parser, where you don't setup "handlers" which process the data automatically, but you "pull" tokens out of the data, and are able to "seek" back and forth through the file).

There is a tutorial, incidentally by me, in the Tutorials section, aptly named, HTML::TokeParser Tutorial. I suggest you also take a look at the XML::Parser Tutorial, as it seems you'd also be better off using proper XML to store your "data" (btw - the HTML::Parser and XML::Parser interfaces are very very similar - only few "name" changes ;D).

 
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In reply to (crazyinsomniac) Re: HTML::Parser - getting all contained HTML? by crazyinsomniac
in thread HTML::Parser - getting all contained HTML? by howie

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