openbsd-ports/www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-TreeBuilder/pkg/DESCR
jasper c4c6ce1440 import p5-WWW-Mechanize-TreeBuilder 1.10001
This module combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder.

from from Stephan A. Rickauer (MAINTAINER), with tweaks by me
2009-11-02 10:10:21 +00:00

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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.