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NAME

       WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder - Module to optimize WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder use

SYNOPSIS

	use Test::More tests => 2;
	use Test::WWW::Mechanize;
	use WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder;
	# or
	# use WWW::Mechanize;
	# or
	# use Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst 'MyApp';

	my $mech = Test::WWW::Mechanize->new;
	# or
	#my $mech = Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst->new;
	# etc. etc.
	WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder->meta->apply($mech);

	$mech->get_ok('/');
	is( $mech->look_down(_tag => 'p')->as_trimmed_text, 'Some text', 'It worked' );

DESCRIPTION

       This module combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder. Why? Because I've seen too much code like the following:

	like($mech->content, qr{<p>some text</p>}, "Found the right tag");

       Which is just all flavours of wrong - its akin to processing XML with regexps.  Instead, do it like the following:

	ok($mech->look_down(_tag => 'p', sub { $_[0]->as_trimmed_text eq 'some text' })

       The anon-sub there is a bit icky, but this means that anyone should happen to add attributes to the "<p>" tag (such as an id or a class) it
       will still work and find the right tag.

       All of the methods available on HTML::Element (that aren't 'private' - i.e.  that don't begin with an underscore) such as "look_down" or
       "find" are automatically delegated to "$mech->tree" through the magic of Moose.

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.)

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:

	with 'WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder' => {
	  tree_class => 'HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath'
	};

	# or

	# NOTE: No hashref using this method
	WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder->meta->apply($mech,
	  tree_class => 'HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath';
	);

       and class will be automatically loaded for you. This class will be used to construct the tree in the following manner:

	$tree = $tree_class->new_from_content($req->decoded_content)->elementify;

       You can also specify a "element_class" parameter which is the (HTML::Element sub)class that methods are proxied from. This module provides
       defaults for element_class when "tree_class" is "HTML::TreeBuilder" or "HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath" - it will warn otherwise.

AUTHOR

       Ash Berlin "<ash@cpan.org>"

LICENSE

       Same as Perl 5.8, or at your option any later version of Perl.

perl v5.10.1							    2010-12-16					  WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder(3pm)