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HTML-TreeBuilder-XPath (0.09)

I was kind of disappointed because I thought this module would help eliminate some of the cruft and needless looping and checking for defined parent elements that the traditional HTML::TreeBuilder requires. It does not. It is fairly limited in its ability to just wrap a ->look_down call. You'll still have to map over lists returned and call $_->getValue() . I don't _think_ XPath differentiates between finding a node and finding a value, this module does, and that hurts usability.

This in my eyes should return a list of src attributes for all img elements that have class="mainPhoto"
$root->findvalue( '//img[@class="mainPhoto"]/@src' );

Instead you're left to do:
map $_->getValue('src')
, $root->findnodes( '//img[@class="mainVehiclePhoto"]/@src' )
;

Evan Carroll - 2008-01-22 10:05:10
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HTML-TreeBuilder-XPath (0.08)

Cool module. HTML data extraction is developed more faster, easy and with pleasure :)
Thanks

Dmytro Nedbaylo - 2007-09-13 02:15:46
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HTML-TreeBuilder-XPath (0.06)

This module is really useful to extract content using XPath, even from not-well-formed HTML. Nice combination of technologies: HTML::TreeBuilder and XML::XPathEngine.

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa - 2006-10-03 02:34:16
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