I want to get rid of white space between the <h1> and <h2> tags, and am trying to use HTML::Element->splice_content to do it. I guess I'm doing it wrong. Can someone tell me why? 
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $html = '<h1>Blah</h1>
&nbsp;<p>&nbsp;<br>
<h2>Blah</h2>';

my $element_root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($html);
$element_root->dump;
print "\n";
$element_root->splice_content(1,1);
$element_root->dump;

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Outputs: 
<html> @0 (IMPLICIT)
  <head> @0.0 (IMPLICIT)
  <body> @0.1 (IMPLICIT)
    <h1> @0.1.0
      "Blah"
    " á"
    <p> @0.1.2
      "á"
      <br> @0.1.2.1
    <h2> @0.1.3
      "Blah"

<html> @0 (IMPLICIT)
  <head> @0.0 (IMPLICIT)

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UPDATE: Thanks to everyone below. Practically every suggestion was useful. In the end, I realized that the main mistake I was making was doing the splice from the root node, rather than the body. I'm still not 100% satisfied, but at least now the splice works. The code I'm using now is: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::Treebuilder;

my $html = '<h1>Blah</h1>
&nbsp;<p>&nbsp;<br>
<h2>Blah</h2>';

my $element_root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($html);
my $body = $element_root->look_down( _tag => "body");
$body->dump;
print "\n";
$body->splice_content(1,2);
$body->dump;

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In reply to Help with HTML::Element->splice_content by tphyahoo

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