Just using Text::Wrap on HTML data might not do any damage by itself -- it would just be mucking with whitespace characters.

But doing something like s/\n/<br>\n/g; either with or without Text::Wrap would be a really bad idea. You could end up with <br> embedded inside other tags.

Sorry, but I had to "--" that suggestion. I misunderstood your suggestion.

update: re-read the idea, realized that you were actually suggesting using Text::Wrap on just the text data, after it was separated from the HTML tags. Right. Sorry about the misunderstanding. (The first reply still seems the better starting point.)