From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-09-08T05:20:38+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] WWW::Mechanize 0.6.0 (Rufus)

On 9/6/06, Aaron Patterson <aaron_patterson@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to announce that my Mechpricot pie is done baking and is
> ready to eat.  The main feature of this release is that Mechanize uses
> Hpricot as its internal HTML parser and that you can now treat a page
> object returned from mechanize as an Hpricot object.  This makes screen
> scraping using mechanize much easier.
>
> You can download it through gems:
>   gem install mechanize -y
>
> or get it here:
>   http://rubyforge.org/projects/mechanize/
>
> Check out the release notes and changelog for more cool stuff.
>
> --Aaron
>
>
>

I'm noticing some issues with the changed behavior of
WWW::Mechanize::Page#links.text

I used to just be able to grab a link using
page.links.text(/pattern/).first and it would work even if the <a> had
children.  It doesn't seem to work anymore.  I'm working on pinning
the issue down, but you likely have more insight. Is there a new way
to do this that's more hpricot friendly?

Hpricot integration seems like a fine idea though, glad to see you
making use of it.   Thanks for all the hard work.