Re: HTML::Tree(Builder) in 6 minutes

[Anonymous Monk]

XML::LibXML is very fast, but it can barely parse 1% of the web pages one can find on the Internet because it expects too strict HTML. That's why your 8-lines Perl program at the end of your column doesn't work. Tree::Builder is very slow and does not provide DOM nor XPath. I think that there is nothing in Perl that can parse real web pages while beeing fast and giving access to DOM or XPath. fred

[mirod]

A little late to the party... but for future reference, HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath gives you XPath on an HTML::Tree object.

And I agree with XML::LibXML not being great at dealing with "real" HTML.