Yes, I did..but I wondered if I was choosing appropriately using HTML::Parser, as the description element was apparently not retrievable via it's methods.

HTML::Parser is low level, its never a solution :) Re: How to grab a portion of file with regex (don't)(parsing html/xml with xpath/twig/dom, because html::parser is low level), Re: How to grab a portion of file with regex (parsing html/xml with xpath/twig/dom, because xml::parser is low level), Re^4: How to grab a portion of file with regex (parsing html/xml with xpath/twig/dom, because ::parser is low level)