Dear Monks,

I am looking for a way to extract links from html documents. Have been working with HTML::Parser and HTML::LinkExtor, which do fine for what they do, however, I am finding that the list of links they parse is incomplete. For example, the links found in: 

<style>
background: url('images/bg_content.jpg')
</style>

<style type="text/css" media="screen">@import "../style.css";</style>

<script type="text/javascript">
...
s1.addParam("flashvars","file=testmovie.flv&image=../media/flash/previ
+ews/testmovie_prvw.jpg");
...
</script>

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are ignored.

If someone can either:

point out what I am missing in order to use HTML::LinkExtor or HTML::Parser the way I want.

suggest another module that they know to be more robust (so I don't have to keep trying them all)

point me to a resource that would provide a list of all possible situations in an HTML document in which a link can occur (whether strictly standard or quirksmode), in which I can write my own.

I will post code if desired, but didn't feel it was necessary to for the question as such.

In reply to More robust link finding than HTML::LinkExtor/HTML::Parser? by Allasso

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