What does HTML::TreeBuilder do? Who knows!?

I KNOW! It tells you to read the source, how awful :)

I second that. A specs compatible HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath that works with the xpaths extracted with a common browser would definitely a simplification....

I was being sarcastic :) HTML::HTML5::Parser isn't documented much better than HTML::TreeBuilder -- you have to read the source just the same

FYI, HTML::TreeBuilder::Xpath just tacks on an xpath-1 engine onto a TreeBuilder tree -- common browser addons commonly modify the DOM --- its usually only @class and @id attributes you're interested in , not absolute paths

htmltreexpather.pl works with the actual tree that HTML::TreeBuilder builds, no browser required :)

Or you could read the HTML5 specification which it almost perfectly complies with. That's the whole point of it - it doesn't need to document how it parses HTML, because it parses it per spec, and the same way as almost every modern browser.

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