in reply to Parsing semi-complex HTML

With XML::LibXML, it would be 

for my $node ($doc->findnodes('//*[@class="className"]')) {
   print($node->toString());
}

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If you want to use HTML::Parser (e.g. if the HTML isn't valid), don't use it directly. Use HTML::TreeBuilder instead. It creates a tree of HTML::Element objects, whose look_down and as_HTML method you could use.

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Re^2: Parsing semi-complex HTML
by duelafn (Parson) on Jul 07, 2010 at 15:57 UTC

    Actually, I've never had problems using XML::LibXML on broken HTML:

    use XML::LibXML;
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
$parser->recover(1);
$parser->recover_silently(1);
my $doc = $parser->parse_html_string($stuff);

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    Good Day,
        Dean

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[d/l]
      Thanks, good to know! I never tried.
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        If we were in the same office, I'd throw something at you right now. I've been using the recover/recover_silently in my XML::LibXML HTML parsing examples--I think in some threads you were in on--for a couple of years. :(

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