Any pointers on the following would be appreciated. The code below correctly displays the links for a given HTML file. However, (between the #####s) I would like to add callbacks for (eg) the <title> tag, and display it's text as well. The $attr->{href}; line will obviously not display the text for a <title> tag, but what will? The print Dumper($attr); line shows no argument coming through for the title tag... Thanks henka

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# This program will print out all <a href=".."> links in a
# document together with the text that goes with it.

use HTML::Parser;
use Data::Dumper;

my $p = HTML::Parser->new(api_version => 3,
    start_h => [\&a_start_handler, "self,tagname,attr"],
    #####
    report_tags => [qw(a img mailto title)],
    #####
    );

$p->parse_file(shift || die) || die $!;

sub a_start_handler
{
    my($self, $tag, $attr) = @_;
    return unless
        $tag eq "a" ||
        $tag eq "img" ||
        $tag eq "mailto" ||
        #####
        $tag eq "title";
        #####
    print Dumper($attr); # display args
    return unless exists $attr->{href};
    print "A $attr->{href}\n";

    $self->handler(text  => [], '@{dtext}' );
    $self->handler(start => \&img_handler);
    $self->handler(start => \&mailto_handler);
    #####
    $self->handler(start => \&title_handler);
    #####
    $self->handler(end   => \&a_end_handler, "self,tagname");
}

#####
sub title_handler
{
    my($self, $tag, $attr) = @_;
    return unless $tag eq "title";
    push(@{$self->handler("text")}, $attr->{alt} || "[TITLE]");
}
#####

sub img_handler
{
    my($self, $tag, $attr) = @_;
    return unless $tag eq "img";
    push(@{$self->handler("text")}, $attr->{alt} || "[IMG]");
}

sub mailto_handler
{
    my($self, $tag, $attr) = @_;
    return unless $tag eq "mailto";
    push(@{$self->handler("text")}, $attr->{alt} || "[MAILTO]");
}


sub a_end_handler
{
    my($self, $tag) = @_;
    my $text = join("", @{$self->handler("text")});
    $text =~ s/^\s+//;
    $text =~ s/\s+$//;
    $text =~ s/\s+/ /g;
    print "T $text\n";

    $self->handler("text", undef);
    $self->handler("start", \&a_start_handler);
    $self->handler("end", undef);
}
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