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Chapter 9. HTML Processing with Trees > Example: BBC News
9.4. Example: BBC News
In Chapter 7, we considered the task of extracting the headline link URLs from the BBC News main page, and we implemented it in terms of HTML::TokeParser. Here, we'll consider the same problem from the perspective of HTML::TreeBuilder.
To review the problem: when you look at the source of http://news.bbc.co.uk, you discover that each headline link is wrapped in one of two kinds of code. There are a lot of headlines expressed with code like this:
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