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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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  by ripplesearch (7323)
  
  Where does CSS::SAC fit into this discussion? Thanks, Christopher
  - Re:Excellent idea (Score:1)
    
    by miyagawa (1653) on 2006.10.03 21:32 (#50752) Homepage Journal
    
    Hm, I haven't looked at CSS::SAC. Looks like it's a SAX parser for CSS? My code does use CSS Selector as just a replacdement of XPath and the code can probably make use of CSS Selector Parser to be complete.
    
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