From the docs of HTML::Element:

       Comment pseudo-elements
           These are element objects with a "$h->tag" value of "~comme
+nt", and
           the content of the comment is stored in the "text" attribut
+e
           ("$h->attr ("text")").  For example, parsing this code with
           HTML::TreeBuilder...

             <!-- I like Pie.
                Pie is good
             -->

           produces an HTML::Element object with these attributes:

             "_tag",
             "~comment",
             "text",
             " I like Pie.\n     Pie is good\n  "

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Which applied as

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.18.2;
use warnings;

use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file (\*DATA);

$root->look_down (_tag => "div", id => "footer")
    ->replace_with (HTML::Element->new ("~comment", text => " foobar "
+));

say $root->as_HTML (undef, "  ", {});

__DATA__
<div id="quiteok">ok</div>
<div id="footer">
 bad
 <div>
  stuff
  <div>
   and lots of it
  </div>
 </div>
</div>
<div>
 something good
</div>

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Results in

<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="quiteok">ok</div>
    <!-- foobar -->
    <div> something good </div>
  </body>
</html>

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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: Find and replace specific elements with HTML::TreeBuilder by Tux
in thread Find and replace specific elements with HTML::TreeBuilder by mldvx4

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