The xml::grove module provides simple access to the information set of parsed xml, html, or sgml instances using a tree of perl hashes. this package also includes several extensions to xml::grove that provide the following:

* returning element contents as a string
* returning element contents as xml, html, or canonical xml
* processing entire groves using the visitor pattern
* processing entire groves using perlsax
* running a filter over all nodes in the grove
* substituting values into an xml template grove
* indexing a grove by id or other attributes
* accessing elements and objects via url-like paths