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Excellent idea (Score:2)

by mir (51)

If that's possible, I would be totally happy to include CSS selectors in HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath (and actually even in XML::XPathEngine). I would love the module to auto-detect which query language is used, but I don't think that's possible, as the syntax overlap.

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- Re:Excellent idea (Score:1)
  
  by miyagawa (1653) on 2006.10.03 21:29 (#50751) Homepage Journal
  
  That's totally possible with just a few lines of code, and yeah, auto-detecting selectors from xpath would be impossible. I'm not sure including the feature into H::TB::XPath is the right thing to do. Maybe it is.
  
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    by mir (51)
    
    I hadn't looked at this at all, but I see that your HTML::Selector::XPath is indeed most of what's needed. Nice job.
    
    I have to thing about it, but at the very least I will add something in the docs about using HTML::Selector::XPath in order to use CSS selectors on XML/HTML modules.
    
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