#!/usr/bin/perl

use XML::XSH;
xsh <<'END_XSH';

recovering 1; # for broken entity recovery (a frequent HTML problem)
quiet; # avoid tracing of open
open HTML animals = "http://www.oreilly.com/animals.html";
foreach {1..2} {
  foreach //table[not(.//table)
                  and contains(tr[1]/td[$__], "Book Title")
                 ]/tr[position() > 1] {
  # pwd;
  $cover = string(td[last()]);
  $subject = string(td[last() - 1]);
  eval { push @{$cover{$cover}}, $subject; }
  }
}
create t1 root;
foreach {sort keys %cover} {
  ## print "animal $__";
  insert element cover into /root;
  cd /root/cover[last()];
  insert element animal into .;
  insert text $__ into animal;
  foreach {sort @{$cover{$__}}} {
    ## print " book $__";
    insert element book into .;
    insert text $__ into book[last()];
  }
}
quiet; # avoid final message from ls
ls /;
END_XSH

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