Oh, if we are pimping alternate modules, then of course id IS magical in XML::Twig:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use XML::Twig;
my $xml_string = <<EOF;
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root> 
  <aaa id='test'> 
    <bbb/> 
  </aaa> 
</root> 
EOF

my $t= XML::Twig->nparse( $xml_string);
my $elem= $t->getElementById( 'test');
$elem->print;

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And of course you can use it to process HTML too (it sub-contracts the HTML to XHTML conversion to HTML::TreeBuilder):


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use XML::Twig;
my $html_string = <<EOF;
<html>
  <head><title>Just a quick example</title></head>
  <body><h1>Example</h1>
  an example<p>
  <div id="test">gotcha!</div>
  <hr>
</html>
EOF

my $t= XML::Twig->new->parse_html( $html_string);
my $elem= $t->getElementById( 'test');
$elem->print;

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In reply to Re^2: XML::LibXML getElementsById problem by mirod
in thread XML::LibXML getElementsById problem by pmc

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