This is a little snippet to show off the new power of HTML::TokeParser:Simple. The docs are a bit messy, though, so I'll have to clean them up.

You have an HTML document full of stuff like this (note the inconsitent capitalization, quotes, etc.):

<body alink=#0000ff BGCOLOR=#ffffff CLASS='none'>
    <P>This is <EM>ugly</em> HTML</P>

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You have to parse the HTML and while you're at it, you'd rather have it look like this:

<body class="foobar">
    <p>This is <em>ugly</em> HTML</p>

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use HTML::TokeParser::Simple 2.1;
my $parser = HTML::TokeParser::Simple->new( $ugly_html );
while (my $token = $parser->get_token) {
    rewrite_body_tag($token) if $token->is_start_tag('body');
    $token->rewrite_tag;
    print $token->as_is;
}

sub rewrite_body_tag {
    # what could be easier?
    my $token = shift;
    $token
        ->delete_attr('bgcolor')
        ->delete_attr('alink')
        ->set_attr('class','foobar');
}

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In reply to Clean up ugly HTML by Ovid

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