Example III - News.com

var FollowLink = fun(page, anchortext)

var dest = (Elem(page, "a") contain

Pat(page, anchortext))[0];

GetURL(dest.href)

end;

var GetStories = fun()

var res = [];

var P = GetURL("http://www.news.com");

var H = FollowLink(P, "(?i)all the headlines");

var A = Elem(H, "a") directlyafter

Pat(H, "•");

every a in A do

res = res + [a.href];

end;

PrintLn(Size(res), " articles found.");

res

end;

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