The objectify_text call just seems to invert the problem. Though I can be rather obtuse and may not see the right way to use it.

I might be able to fit XML::LibXML into the full script and replace HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath. Here is my sketch, 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use XML::LibXML;

use strict;
use warnings;

my $tree = XML::LibXML->load_xml(IO => \*DATA);
my $dtd = XML::LibXML::XPathContext->new( $tree->documentElement() );
$dtd->registerNs( 'u' => 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' );

for my $body ($dtd->findnodes('//u:body')) {
    # print $body->toString;
    for my $n ($body->childNodes()) {
    print $n->toString;
    }
}

print "\n";
print "OK\n";

exit(0);

__DATA__
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta name="generator" content=
  "HTML Tidy for HTML5 for Linux version 5.6.0" />
  <title></title>
</head>
<body>
  <p>foo</p>
  <p>bar</p>
  trololo
</body>
</html>

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