use YAPE::HTML;
$p = YAPE::HTML->new($CONTENT);

1 while $p->next;  # to build the tree

@exclude = qw( a img );
$level = 2;

for ($p->root) {  # top-level elements
  print $_->fullstring(\@exclude, $level);
}

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