If I were you I'd just contact the author (if you can find him) and forcefeed him a hardcopy of the CGI POD for breakfast. After that you might need a HTML tag stripper (which can be done with HTML::Parser but a rought (and dirty) way of doing that is specified in perlfaq9...

$string =~ s/<(?:[^>'"]*|(['"]).*?\1)*>//gs
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Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.