Thanks - I wouldn't mind home-brewing a tweak to HTML::Element, and I've already got all the bits nicely tokenised for me so I don't have to worry about that. As I mentioned above in reply to diotalevi, it's not quite as simple as we'd wish; on the other hand, you've made me think it's not quite as hard as I'd feared. I guess I might have some trouble justifying spending my work hours scratching my source-code formatting neuroses, but this problem's bitten me now...

cheers
ViceRaid