Hello

I'm using HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath to extract data from an html page, i can't understand very well how it work, basically i want to get the value inside of "<div class="here">" but file by file, i've made an example based in the documentation but doesn't work, check below:

use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
$tree->parse_content(do { local($/); <DATA>});

for my $result ($tree->findnodes(q{/html/body/div})) {

    print $result->findvalue(q{//div[@class="here"]});
    print "<br>".("-" x 120)."<br>";

}

__DATA__;
<html>
    <body>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

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It print this:

this's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's
+ the valuethis's the value
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------------------------
this's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's
+ the valuethis's the value
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------------------------
this's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's
+ the valuethis's the value
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------------------------
this's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's
+ the valuethis's the value
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------------------------
this's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's
+ the valuethis's the value
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------------------------
this's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's the valuethis's
+ the valuethis's the value
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------------------------

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So, the solution for me was made this:

use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
$tree->parse_content(do { local($/); <DATA>});

for my $result ($tree->findnodes(q{/html/body/div})) {

    my $x = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
        $x->parse($result->as_HTML);
        print $x->findvalue(q{//div[@class="here"]});
    print "<br>".("-" x 17)."<br>";

}

__DATA__;
<html>
    <body>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
        <div>
            <div class="here">this's the value</div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

[download]

It print this:

this's the value
-----------------
this's the value
-----------------
this's the value
-----------------
this's the value
-----------------
this's the value
-----------------
this's the value
-----------------

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But i think, isn't pretty code, what's the correct way to do this, what's wrong in the first example?

Thank you in advance

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