Well, about what the program does.. hmm, I really hoped that showing the input, saying that the program parses it and showing the output would say much more then I'd be able to say in words :)

So: I want to be able to extract links from HTML _and_ associate them with a reasonable link_text, even if the links are nested and the text that should pertain to a given link is interspersed with possible various other tags, even if the links are nested.

In order to do so, I wanted to explore the modules that would allow this sort of operation as easiest as possible - in order to get a good start the next time I'd have to do something similar, so that I'd know better the strenghts and weaknesses of the available tools.

HTML::Parser would be Way#1; having the same problem solved with alongside Way#2 (HTML::LinkExtractor), Way#3 (HTML::TokeParser), etc. would allow to get an easy overview/comparison on the available tools/modules.

In reply to Re^2: Parsing HTML - once again by Krambambuli
in thread Parsing HTML - once again by Krambambuli

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