#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use Data::Dumper;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use strict;

die "must input filename" unless @ARGV;

foreach my $file_name (@ARGV) {
  my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new; # empty tree
  $tree->parse_file($file_name);
  print "Hey, here's a dump of the parse tree of $file_name:\n";
  #  $tree->dump; # a method we inherit from HTML::Element
  # Now that we're done with it, we must destroy it.
  my %table;
  (
   $table{root},
   $table{cond},
   $table{'cond-alternatives'},
   $table{action},
   $table{'action-entries'}
  ) 
    = $tree->find_by_tag_name('table');
  
  my %td;

  map { $td{$_} = [ $table{$_}->find_by_tag_name('td') ] } (keys %tabl
+e);

  my %x;
  map { 
    my $field = $_;
    map { push @{$x{$field}}, $_->content_array_ref } @{$td{$_}}
  } (keys %td);

  printf "cond has %s", Dumper $x{cond};
    
  $tree = $tree->delete;
}
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2001-03-04 Edit by Corion : Fixed up pasted HTML