Re: Removing nested div Tag from HTML

Are you trying to extract it or delete it? Either way, HTML::Tree is far simpler than what you are doing. The look_down method is all you need. Here's an article on scanning HTML

So basically, you just need to:

create an instance
parse the HTML
my $element = $tree->look_down( ... critera .. )
$element->delete

The specifics depend on exactly what you want to keep versus delete, but it's a piece of cake.

The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development.

-- Terence Parr, "Enforcing Strict Model View Separation in Template Engines"

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Re^2: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by mr_p (Scribe) on Aug 18, 2011 at 20:13 UTC
Wouldn't HTML::Tree take too much time loading? The material I am working with is time critical.	[reply]
Re^3: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by Anonymous Monk on Aug 18, 2011 at 20:55 UTC
Wouldn't HTML::Tree take too much time loading? T.I.T.S. The material I am working with is time critical. Can't be that critical, if you're using perl	[reply]
Re^4: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by mr_p (Scribe) on Aug 18, 2011 at 21:38 UTC
I can not get cpan to install HTML::Tree::Scanning. It says. Also, my HTML::Tree is up to date. `Try the command i /HTML::Tree::Scanning/ to find objects with matching identifiers.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by Anonymous Monk on Aug 19, 2011 at 12:42 UTC
Re^4: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by mr_p (Scribe) on Aug 19, 2011 at 15:02 UTC
I tried the HTML::Tree, but It only gets me the content of the tag. I would need to pull out the whole tag with all tags inside it and remove a specific tag based on attribute. Is it possible to do this with HTML::Tree?	[reply]
Re^5: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by Anonymous Monk on Aug 19, 2011 at 15:15 UTC
Re^4: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by mr_p (Scribe) on Aug 19, 2011 at 15:18 UTC
Thanks I got the HTML::Tree too work and replace tags that I don't want. Thanks I would still like it to know what was wrong with my code and findout why I can't do this with HTML::Parser.	[reply]
Re^4: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by mr_p (Scribe) on Aug 19, 2011 at 21:27 UTC
Do you know how I can extract the tag? I was able to remove the tag from html but not extract it.	[reply]
Re^5: Removing nested div Tag from HTML by Anonymous Monk on Aug 20, 2011 at 03:10 UTC


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