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  m|^\s*<[^/>]+>(.+)</| and $_=$1; # Zap tags on both sides, if any
  # The line above looks for text enclosed in html tokens, and extract
+s the text. 
...
  # The line above handles left-over single tags:
  # Eg: it zaps "<sometag/>" from  "text1 <sometag/> text2"
  # Actually, it is rather crude, and does not care about tag terminat
+ion, or matching.

  $collected_text .= $_;