I'm going to be speaking at the Yet Another Perl Conference later this month about HTML::Element and HTML::TreeBuilder. I've done my write-up for the procedings, and Kevin Lenzo says he won't need it in final form for another few days (maybe until Jun 3?). In the meantime, all are welcome to read the addled mess I've put together as notes for my talk and email me any corrections, questions, or suggestions. The write-up is at: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/~sburke/y2c.html The "look_up" and "look_down" methods mentioned are, incidentally, new (as in about 12 hours old as I write this), and not yet in CPAN. They, well, behave as described in that document. look_down is basically an extension of find_by_attribute. look_up operates the same but recurses up from the currentnode instead of traversing down from that node. (The emphasis of the talk shifted as I did the write-up: it started out with me spending a lot of time bitching about some of the more difficult cases of weird/bad HTML code that HTML::TreeBuilder has to handle. But then I thought it's more relevant to people if I talk more about extracting information from trees. And anyhow, hopefully TreeBuilder is at a stage now where everyone can just treat it like a black box and never have to worry about the Lovecraftian terror that its actual parsing logic consists of.) -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/
