Here is a very brute force method that replaces all text items 'foo' with 'bar' using HTML::Template HTML::Parser . The idea is to set callbacks everytime:
  1. a start tag is encountered
  2. the inside text element is encountered
  3. the end tag is encountered
For the first and third cases, we simply regurgitate what we found to STDOUT. For the middle case, we substitute. Hope this helps. :) 
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Parser;

my $parser = HTML::Parser->new(api_version => 3);

$parser->handler(start => \&start, 'self,tagname,attr');
$parser->handler(text  => \&text,  'self,dtext');
$parser->handler(end   => \&end,   'self,tagname');

$parser->parse(q|<foo bar="qux" baz="foo">foo</foo>|);

sub start {
   my ($parser,$tag,$attr) = @_;
   print "<$tag";
   # we lose the original order of attribs, but we'll live ;)
   print qq| $_="$attr->{$_}"| for keys %$attr;
   print ">";
}

sub text {
   my ($parser,$text,$attr) = @_;
   $text =~ s/foo/bar/g;
   print "$text";
}

sub end {
   my ($parser,$tag) = @_;
   print "</$tag>";
}

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UPDATE:
Thanks hiseldl ... maybe it really is time for me to switch from HTML::Template to TT! :D

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to (jeffa) Re: Regexp to ignore HTML tags by jeffa
in thread Regexp to ignore HTML tags by markhoy

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