Same with xsh

The output 

$ xsh --html --quiet --non-interactive --load     pm981742.xsh
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://
+www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
  <body>
    <h4 class="bla">July 12</h4>
    <p>Tim</p>
    <p>Jon</p>
    <h4 class="bla">July 13</h4>
    <p>James</p>
    <p>Eric</p>
    <p>Jerry</p>
    <p>Susie</p>
    <h4 class="date">July 14</h4>
    <p>Kami</p>
    <p>Darryl</p>
  </body>
</html>

{
  "July 12" => ["Tim", "Jon"],
  "July 13" => ["James", "Eric", "Jerry", "Susie"],
  "July 14" => ["Kami", "Darryl"],
}

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The xsh script (xml shell script) 

open pm981742.xml;

ls --indent /;

for //body/* {
    $text = string(text());
    if(  name() = "h4" ){
        $key = $text;
    }
    if( name() = "p" ){
        perl {
            push @{
                $hash{$key}
            }, $text;
        };
    }
}

perl {
    use Data::Dump;
    dd \%hash;
    undef %hash;
    undef $key;
};

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In reply to Re^2: Extracting data-structure from HTML using Web::Scraper by Anonymous Monk
in thread Extracting data-structure from HTML using Web::Scraper by windowbreaker

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