Ah, the classic "Perl code that writes C code that turns other C code into Perl functions". :-)

I can hardly complain that "it's too convoluted". I spent the better part of a month writing code that takes a HTML Template Toolkit file, rips out the Javascript into it's own file, then rips any "onclick" (and similar) functions out of the remaining HTML and writes corresponding JQuery code into the new JS file, then throws both files through TT (including a DIY "translate and HTML quoting" plugin) and stuffs the results into an in-memory cache for future use...