I have a text translation problem to solve. That is, I want to take some text with simple markup and produce other text in another form of markup. The original text looks something like this: 
HEAD: LAMP Post

DECK: Burn the Bulb Brighter

AUTHOR: Joe Smith

This is I<some> sample text. It uses a few pieces of markup such as C<
+courier>, C<I<courier italics>>, B<bold>, and I<italics.>

Some time there is 

C<
long 
sections of code
>

or 

I<
Long quotes 
that appears in blocks
>

There can also be figures, such as I<Figure One.>

[ BEGIN FIGURE ONE: This is a caption with I<italics> ]

[ INSERT sample.jpg ]

[ END FIGURE ONE ]

Etc. 

BIO: John Smith

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For sake of discussion, imagine I want to produce HTML (but I also want to be able to produce Quark and InDesign markup, too). I definitely want to maintain a map of original tags to new tags, and have that list be dynamic so I can emit a variety of formats.

I have something working with Parse::RecDescent. I chose it because of the possibility of embedded tags, such as C<I<courier italics.>> However, I am wondering if there is some other module I should consider using? Text::Balanced? A modified HTML parser?

Suggestions? Martin

In reply to Best parsing module to use? by supergiantrobot

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