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some text

}, "Found the right tag"); .Ve .PP Which is just all flavours of wrong \- its akin to processing \s-1XML\s0 with regexps. Instead, do it like the following: .PP .Vb 1 \& ok($mech\->look_down(_tag => \*(Aqp\*(Aq, sub { $_[0]\->as_trimmed_text eq \*(Aqsome text\*(Aq }) .Ve .PP The anon-sub there is a bit icky, but this means that anyone should happen to add attributes to the \f(CW\*(C`

\*(C'\fR tag (such as an id or a class) it will still work and find the right tag. .PP All of the methods available on HTML::Element (that aren't 'private' \- i.e. that don't begin with an underscore) such as \f(CW\*(C`look_down\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`find\*(C'\fR are automatically delegated to \f(CW\*(C`$mech\->tree\*(C'\fR through the magic of Moose. .SH "METHODS" .IX Header "METHODS" Everything in WWW::Mechanize (or which ever sub class you apply it to) and all public methods from HTML::Element except those where WWW::Mechanize and HTML::Element overlap. In the case where the two classes both define a method, the one from WWW::Mechanize will be used (so that the existing behaviour of Mechanize doesn't break.) .SH "USING XPATH OR OTHER SUBCLASSES" .IX Header "USING XPATH OR OTHER SUBCLASSES" HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath allows you to use use xpath selectors to select elements in the tree. You can use that module by providing parameters to the moose role: .PP .Vb 3 \& with \*(AqWWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder\*(Aq => { \& tree_class => \*(AqHTML::TreeBuilder::XPath\*(Aq \& }; \& \& # or \& \& # NOTE: No hashref using this method \& WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder\->meta\->apply($mech, \& tree_class => \*(AqHTML::TreeBuilder::XPath\*(Aq; \& ); .Ve .PP and class will be automatically loaded for you. This class will be used to construct the tree in the following manner: .PP .Vb 1 \& $tree = $tree_class\->new_from_content($req\->decoded_content)\->elementify; .Ve .PP You can also specify a \f(CW\*(C`element_class\*(C'\fR parameter which is the (HTML::Element sub)class that methods are proxied from. This module provides defaults for element_class when \f(CW\*(C`tree_class\*(C'\fR is \*(L"HTML::TreeBuilder\*(R" or \&\*(L"HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath\*(R" \- it will warn otherwise. .SH "AUTHOR" .IX Header "AUTHOR" Ash Berlin \f(CW\*(C`\*(C'\fR .SH "LICENSE" .IX Header "LICENSE" Same as Perl 5.8, or at your option any later version of Perl.