I normally use XML::Twig in the sad occasions I need to deal with XML. With small xml data i use __DATA__ and $twig->parse(<DATA>) but with your sample I got no element found at line 2, column 0, byte 39 at.. even if W3C validator parses the file as correct. Using a real file I had no errors. I dunno why and I rarely inspect XML with my eyes; doctor said is no good ;=)

I have no managed to strip out nbsp from Sunday, but now it's to late to deal with entities and the biiig XML::Twig manpage. See you Sundaynbsp at the Pubnbsp ;=)

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;

my @days;
my $twig= XML::Twig->new(
   twig_handlers=>{
                    'div[@class="data"]'=>sub{
                                (my $txt =  $_[1]->text)=~s/\W//g;
                                 push @days, $_[1]->att('id')."=$txt";
                    }
   }
);

$twig->parsefile ('example.html');
print join ', ', @days;

# output
Zero=, One=Monday, Two=Tuesday, Three=Wednesday, Four=Thursday, Five=F
+riday, Six=Saturday, Seven=Sundaynbsp
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PS i bet tybalt89 will come out with some working regex solution! ;=)

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