I'm using the traverse function in HTML::Treebuilder and it does not seem to recognise the span tag. My code is:

$html=$response->content;
$treeparse=HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
$treeparse->parse($html);            
$treeparse->traverse(\&treewalker);
$treeparse->delete();

sub treewalker
{
    my ($node, $start, $depth) = @_;
        if (ref $node) 
    {
       
             my $tag = $node->tag;

         if ($tag eq "span")
         {
               ....

         }
     }
}

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it never executes the code with the if block even though there are span elements in the html I am parsing.

In reply to Is the span tag supported by HTML:Treebuilder by ChilliHead

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