Greetings Monks,
 Recently I have been tasked with modifying my custom module to output "clean html", given the following html snippet: 
<B>TEXT</B><BR>Foo & BAR

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has to be formatted thusly: 
<B>TEXT</B><BR>FOO &amp; BAR

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basically, I need to convert the "text" to their html entity, at the same time retaining the html tags. I have looked at few modules on CPAN, namely: I liked the HTML::Tidy, except for the fact, that it required libtidy, and I might not be able to package libtidy as part of the release.

Regards to HTML::Lint, the documentation does not give any methods to access the cleaned html chunk.

Do you know of any "all perl" html tidy like module ?

In reply to clean html tags by InfiniteLoop

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
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