Dear monks,

I've just worked out a solution for a specific problem I had to solve, and I'd like to share the results.

However, I'm unsure about two things:
My questions:
  1. Should I post/submit this code somewhere ?
  2. If yes: what would be the recommended way to proceed ?
Specifically, I wanted to be able to extract links _and_ the "associated text" - even if that is a fairly vague notion.

So I decided to write the code that, given the following HTML (note the intentionally nested links and somewhat sloppy HTML):
<garbage>
<a href="URL1"> text1.0 <img src="SRC1"> text1.1 <br>
                <garbage2> text1.2
   <a href="URL2"> text2.0 <img src="SRC2"> text2.1 <br> <garbage2>
                   <garbage3> text2.2
      <a href="URL3"> text3.0 <img src="SRC3"> text3.1 <br> <garbage3>
            text3.2 <x1 a="a" b="b"> text3.3
      </a>
      text2.3 <haha>
   </a>
   text1.3 <oho>
   <a href="URL4"> text4.0 <img src="SRC4"> text4.1 <br> <garbage4>
                    text4.2 <x1 a="a" b="b"> text4.3
   </a>
   text1.4
</a>

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would produce the following (or similar) output: 
A URL3
        TEXT: ' text3.0  text3.1
            text3.2  text3.3
      '
A URL2
        TEXT: ' text2.0  text2.1
                    text2.2

      text2.3
   '
A URL4
        TEXT: ' text4.0  text4.1
                    text4.2  text4.3
   '
A URL1
        TEXT: ' text1.0  text1.1
                 text1.2

   text1.3

   text1.4
'

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I did my search homeworks and found a series of good nodes; among them,

Extracting full links from HTML,
Process a HTML file to get information from it.,
Getting to grips with HTML::Parser.

I decided to go for a first attempt with HTML::Parser; I probably will continue and add at least a few of other code variants, as I'm curious to get my own hands-on knowledge about HTML::LinkExtractor and HTML::TokeParser.

The code I've came up so far is on my Scratchpad.

Thank you for any help/suggestions/opinions.

In reply to Parsing HTML - once again by Krambambuli

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