use warnings; use strict; # ##### Version with Mojo::DOM ##### # nicer API but less strict on parsing (useful for HTML) use Mojo::DOM; sub strip_tags_mojo { my ($str, $activetags) = @_; my %active = map {($_=>1)} @$activetags; my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new->xml(1)->parse($str); $dom->find('*')->grep(sub{ not $active{$_->tag} })->map('remove'); my $text = $dom->all_text; $text =~ s/\s+/ /g; return $text; } # ##### Version with XML::LibXML ##### # generally a more verbose API but strict XML-compliant parsing # (in the following I've tried to shorten the code quite a bit) use XML::LibXML; sub strip_tags_xml { my ($str, $activetags) = @_; my %active = map {($_=>1)} @$activetags; my $dom = XML::LibXML->new->parse_balanced_chunk($str); $active{$_->nodeName} or $_->parentNode->removeChild($_) for $dom->findnodes('*'); my $text = $dom->textContent; $text =~ s/\s+/ /g; return $text; } # ##### Tests ##### use Test::More; sub exception (&) { eval { shift->(); 1 } ? undef : ($@ || die) } # poor man's Test::Fatal my $input = 'word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 word7 word8 word9 word10 word11'; my @tests = ( { in=>['tag0', 'tag1'], exp=>'word1 word2 word3 word4 word5 word6 word9 word11' }, { in=>['tag3'], exp=>'word1 word6 word9 word10 word11' }, { in=>['tag1', 'tag2', 'tag3'], exp=>'word1 word6 word7 word8 word9 word10 word11' }, ); plan tests => (@tests+1)*2; for my $t (@tests) { is strip_tags_mojo($input, $t->{in}), $t->{exp}; is strip_tags_xml($input, $t->{in}), $t->{exp}; } ok not exception { strip_tags_mojo('foo bar ') }; ok exception { strip_tags_xml('foo bar') };