Hi monks, I'm using XML::Twig to parse an XML document, with dates and events, that is not as nicely structured as I'd like. Here's a pseudo-code example:

<div id="calendar">
 <h3 class="current-day">Wednesday, February 1</h3>
 <div class="event">Event 1</div>
 <div class="event">Event 2</div>
 <div class="event">Event 3</div>

 <h3 class="current-day">Thursday, February 2</h3>
 <div class="event">Event 1</div>
 <div class="event">Event 2</div>

 <h3 class="current-day">Friday, February 3</h3>
 <div class="event">Event 1</div>
 <div class="event">Event 2</div>

</div>

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The problem is the div-events are not contained within the h3 elements, so I can't figure out how to associate the events with each date. I can get all the h3 children and all the div-event children with a div event handler at the top level: 

my($twig, $div) = @_;
if($div->att('id') eq 'calendar'){
 my(@dates) = $div->children('h3');
 my(@events) = $div->children('div');
}

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But obviously that just gives me two unconnected lists. Is there some clever way I can associate these elements, perhaps in the order they appear? Doesn't seem to be a "next_child" function in XML::Twig.

Thanks for any advice.

In reply to XML::Twig parsing poorly structured content by slugger415

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