Re: Can't locate object method "getElementsByClassName" via package "HTML::TagParser::Element"

[Anonymous Monk]

... or is it something else?

Its a bug/limitation/oversight of HTML::TagParser ... its why HTML::TreeBuilder is more popular , sure it doesn't have the DOMish names, but its got HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath and htmltreexpather.pl :)
HTML::TagParser is depended on by 7 distributions
HTML::TreeBuilder is depended on by 180 distributions

Also, you posted too much stuff, narrow it down (aka clean your room )

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TagParser;
my $html = HTML::TagParser->new(q{
<div id="bug">
    <span class="type"> yo </span>
    <span class="type"> ho </span>
    <span class="type"> ho </span>
</div>
});
my $bug = $html->getElementById("bug");
my @sss = $bug->getElementsByClassName("type");
__END__
Can't locate object method "getElementsByClassName" via package "HTML:
+:TagParser::Element" at - line 13.

[Vonunov]

I worried that if I tried to trim anything I would cut out the part that magically makes my problem happen even though it looks like it has nothing to do with it. :P

Thanks, I'll try that module then.

[Laurent_R]

Making the effort of trimming your code to a more reasonable length and still exhibit the problem might actually help you figuring out by yourself where the error is. And it will make it easier for us to help you if you did not solve the problem yourself in the course of that process.

[Anonymous Monk]

I worried that if I tried to trim anything I would cut out the part that magically makes my problem happen even though it looks like it has nothing to do with it. :P

Thats why you make a copy of the file each time you trim, that way, if the problem disappears, you can go back a file ;)