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p5-WWW-Mechanize-TreeBuilder-1.20000p0

combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder

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Description

This module combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder. Why? Because I've seen too much code like the following: like($mech->content, qr{<p>some text</p>}, "Found the right tag"); Which is just all flavours of wrong - its akin to processing XML with regexps. Instead, do it like the following: ok($mech->look_down(_tag => 'p', sub { $_[0]->as_trimmed_text eq 'some text' }) The anon-sub there is a bit icky, but this means that anyone should happen to add attributes to the <p> tag (such as an id or a class) it will still work and find the right tag.

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www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-TreeBuilder
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The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
www, perl5
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