I had to do the same thing a couple of days ago. Here is my HTML::Parser solution (to complement tilly's HTML::TokeParser version above). It encodes any special characters found in the text portion of an HTML doc.

use HTML::Parser;
use HTML::Entities;

my $html = '<div align="center">Your "HTML" page goes here</div>';
my $enc = '';

my $p = HTML::Parser->new(
  unbroken_text => 1,
  default_h => [ sub { $enc .= join('', @_) }, "text" ],
  text_h => [ sub { $enc .= HTML::Entities::encode_entities($_[0]) }, 
+"text" ],
);
$p->parse($html);
print $encoded;

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Handling JavaScript is left as an exercise for the reader ;)

- Cees

In reply to Re^3: Matching HTML Tags by cees
in thread Matching HTML Tags by pcadv

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