To clarify something that seems to be used differently in some of the HTML::* modules I looked at, by "content" I mean whatever falls between the start and end tags.

I thought something like HTML::TreeBuilder was the way to go, but of course that just displays the tags and their attributes. Which is a fine thing, but not what I need. This is more along the lines of parsing XML files, but with the added difficulty of the files I'm running this are pretty darn far from valid XML (although I'm working with some XML-like tags), which means trying to use XML::Parser causes choking verrrry early on.

I've also tried a regexp approach, but I ran into difficulties with nested tags and my need to decide what to do with the content immediately upon finding it.

Simple example of this: 
<research_type>Report</content_type>
<research_title>Something <i>Inane</i></research_title>

[download]

I'm looking to get something along these lines back: 
research_type : Report<br>
research_title : Something <i>Inane</i>
i : Inane

[download]

All ideas and comments appreciated.

In reply to Pulling the content of HTML tags by markguy

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