in looking at the issue in more depth.. the real question i have is how can one take a "list" of items were the parent has descendants, and simply "pop" off the "text" for the parent/root node without the children???
as i stated, this is basically what i'm trying to do for now, and what has me stymied... it appears that this should be realtively straightforward, but i must be missing something! thanks -bruce -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:25 AM To: 'Darrell Gammill'; 'Gisle Aas' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: :mechanize issues/mechanize.pm dies!! aha!!! so my 1st real attempt at using new mods in perl.. and i stumble on a bug!!!.. cool... i'll make the patch.. and try to use www::mechanize... i do have an additional problem/issue/question. i have a small situation where i'm trying to get the text for the "parent"/top item... i'm trying to use html::treebuilder as the parsing app... the html is: . . . <tr class="tbon"> @0.1.1.0.0.0.2.1.0.0.0.3.1 <td colspan=7> @0.1.1.0.0.0.2.1.0.0.0.3.1.0 <p class="tbtx"> @0.1.1.0.0.0.2.1.0.0.0.3.1.0.0 <span class="em"> @0.1.1.0.0.0.2.1.0.0.0.3.1.0.0.0 "ACCA 310F " <span class="on"> @0.1.1.0.0.0.2.1.0.0.0.3.1.0.0.0.1 "FOUNDATIONS OF ACCOUNTING" " A A " <b> @0.1.1.0.0.0.2.1.0.0.0.3.1.0.0.2 . . . i'm trying to figure out how to access/print "ACC 310F" as a separate element... using: @span_tree = $tbtx_tree[0]->look_down("_tag"=>"span"); print "tree span = ". $span_tree[0]->parent()->dump() ."\n"; generates: <span class="em"> @0.1.1.0.0.0.2.1.0.0.0.3.1.0.0.0 "ACCA 310F " <span class="on"> @0.1.1.0.0.0.2.1.0.0.0.3.1.0.0.0.1 "FOUNDATIONS OF ACCOUNTING" i appear to be having an issue with my approach given that both tags are "spans".. any way to separate them... i can get the "FOUNDATIONS..." by simply looking at $span_tree[1]...., but $span_tree[0] appears to contain both spans.. any way to separate them... any ideas/comments/criticisms/etc.. would be appreciated... thanks -bruce
