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Hi,

Try with WWW::Mechanize

It can solve your problem easily

Regards,
Vivek
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Re^3: HTML::TreeBuilder:: identifing xpath-expression - first attempt
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 17, 2010 at 09:20 UTC
    Hi viveksnv
    • kcott doesn't have the problem, Perlbeginner1 does (clicking the correct reply/comment on link is important)
    • WWW::Mechanize won't help him extract html by xpath queries
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      I experimented with this: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;
use LWP::Simple;
use Test::WWW::Mechanize;
use WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder;
use Data::Dumper::Concise;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
my $mech = Test::WWW::Mechanize->new;
WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder->meta->apply($mech);
$tree->parse_content(get 'http://www.educa.ch/dyn/79376.asp?id=1187');
print Dumper($tree->as_text('//tr'));

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      Update:: not finished - will integrate $mech->find_xpath later.
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        hello Khen1950fx

        that looks great!

        a find_Xpath would be amazing
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