I have a perl script that is given HTML (say in $html) and needs to parse $html into formatting appropriate for a .js (JavaScript) file that will be called via a <script type="text/javascript" src="myfile.js"> tag. My problem is that if $html contains JavaScript code instead of plain HTML, that JavaScript code does NOT need to be formatted (since it is already JavaScript). For instance, if I wanted to display a Google AdSense ad via this .js file, my script would have to parse the following (contained in $html): 

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "0123456789";
google_alternate_color = "FFFFFF";
google_ad_width = 120;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "120x90_0ads_al_s";
//2007-05-16: adsense4u
google_ad_channel = "1328300801";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "000000";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "78B749";
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.c
+om/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

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I want my script to be able to completely remove the first <script> and </script> tags (but not the code inbetween) since what is contained inbetween is pure JavaScript and should be kept intact/unparsed. However, the second <script> tag contains a "src" and so I want this tag to be parsed into a format suitable for a document.write(); JS statement. So it should look something like this after being parsed: 

<!--
google_ad_client = "0123456789";
google_alternate_color = "FFFFFF";
google_ad_width = 120;
google_ad_height = 90;
google_ad_format = "120x90_0ads_al_s";
//2007-05-16: adsense4u
google_ad_channel = "1328300801";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "000000";
google_color_text = "000000";
google_color_url = "78B749";
//-->

document.write('<'+'script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.
+googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">');
document.write('<'+'/script>');

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In the end, my goal is to be able to take the original HTML/JavaScript mix and parse it, via perl, into a form suitable for a .js file. I am not sure where to start and would appreciate any help provided. Thanks!

In reply to Parsing HTML code for formatting into JavaScript by anxara

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