beautifulsoup .vs tidy

[bruce]

hi...

never used perl, but i have an issue trying to resolve some html that
appears to be "dirty/malformed" regarding the overall structure. in
researching validators, i came across the beautifulsoup app and wanted to
know if anybody could give me pros/cons of the app as it relates to any of
the other validation apps...

the issue i'm facing involves parsing some websites, so i'm trying to
extract information based on the DOM/XPath functions.. i'm using perl to
handle the extraction....

thanks

-bruce
bedouglas at earthlink.net