Esteemed Monks,

I am using HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath module, and when I try to use the text() directive in the XPath lookup, the module fails:

$tree->findnodes_as_string('/html/body//td/text()');

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I get the following error:

Can't locate object method "toString" via package "HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath::TextNode" at .../lib/XML/XPathEngine.pm line 125

So I have found out that this is a known bug with this module. (See here) My question is:
Can you recommend a reliable CPAN module which I can use to parse HTML and run an XPath query on it?

Thanks a lot.

In reply to Any Alternative to HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath? by sumeetgrover

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