I am completely puzzled by the behavior I am seeing when HTML::Treebuilder parses a simple html text string. Basically, it seems to be chopping the last word off of my html. Where I expect "some more text" I get just "some more."

The html is missing the beginning <head>/<body> stuff, and is therefore technically malformed, but I thought treebuilder was able to compensate for this in an intelligent way. Here's the code: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $treeroot = HTML::TreeBuilder->new;
#$treeroot->store_comments(1);

my $whole_file = 'Some text. Some more text.';
$treeroot->parse( $whole_file );
#$treeroot->elementify(); # elementify doesn't matter either way.
$treeroot->dump();

=output: 
<html> @0 (IMPLICIT)
  <head> @0.0 (IMPLICIT)
  <body> @0.1 (IMPLICIT)
    "Some text. Some more"
=cut

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I am starting to doubt my sanity here. Anybody got any ideas?

In reply to Why is HTML::Treebuilder chopping the last word off my html? by tphyahoo

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