You're most welcome. I don't know if XML::LibXML's a cure-all but it's all I've been using for a couple years for parsing (X)HTML when I don't need a stream (which is most of the time, otherwise I like HTML::TokeParser). It'll even validate documents against DTDs. And as a side-effect of picking it up, you'll find you'll learn other useful stuff like xpath and JS/DOM hacking. Mine improved considerably though learning it.