For just escaping HTML entities, I use this code: 
{ # closure
  my  %HTML_ESCAPE = (
                      "\xa0" => " ",
                      "&" => "&",
                      "'" => "'",
                      "\"" => """,
                      "<" => "&lt;",
                      ">" => "&gt;",
                     );
  
  sub html_escape
  {
    return '' unless defined($_[0]);
    
    (my $t=$_[0]) =~ s/([\xa0\'\"&<>])/$HTML_ESCAPE{$1}/g;
    $t;
  }
}

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It's best to escape the data as it's coming in; otherwise it's very difficult to distinguish between, for example, a less-than sign that should be converted to &lt; and one that is part of the markup.

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