Re^2: HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and regular expressions

Yes, I cheated. In XML::XPathEngine, which provides the XPath engine for HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath, it was easy and seemed like the Perlish thing to do to integrate regexps in the XPath syntax itself.

From looking at the code (which I inherited from XML::XPath), the official XPath way, using fn:matches(subject, pattern, flags) doesn't seem to be supported. Patches welcome.

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Re^3: HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and regular expressions by rduke15 (Beadle) on Mar 29, 2010 at 14:26 UTC
Well, if we can use the much simpler and better Perl way, who cares about the convoluted "official" way... :-) As it is, it's great. Thanks a lot. The only missing thing seems to be a sentence and/or an example in the module's documentation. In the meantime, hopefully this thread will show up for the kind of searches I made without success today.	[reply]
Re^4: HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and regular expressions by rduke15 (Beadle) on Mar 29, 2010 at 14:37 UTC
And of course, it actuall IS documented. Not in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath but in XML-XPathEngine Must be a bad day. I keep finding stuff only after posting...	[reply]
Re^4: HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and regular expressions by mirod (Canon) on Mar 29, 2010 at 15:06 UTC
Yes, it makes sense to document it in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath, that's the one that people are using. XML::XPathEngine is just a lower layer, users don't need to kow about it, or look for documentation there. I will add it for the next version. Thanks.	[reply]