Assuming you already have the trimmed contents somewhere and you don't mind that the order is not kept, this might work. The content of the <content> tag will be skipped by expat so it should not waste memory:

use strict;
use XML::Rules;

my @contents = ('first trimmed content', 'second trimmed content');

my $parser = XML::Rules->new(
  style => 'filter',
  start_rules => {
    content => 'skip',
  },
  rules => {
    _default => 'raw',
    product => sub {
      my ($tag, $attr, $parser) = @_[0,1,4];
      $attr->{content} = [ $contents[ $parser->{pad}++ ] ];
      return $tag => $attr;
    }
  },
);

$parser->filter(\*DATA);

__DATA__
<document>
 <product>
  <date>2008-10-15</date>
  <price>124</price>
  <content>heinous amount of unwanted text</content>
  <color>red</color>
 </product>
 <product>
  <date>2009/01/30</date>
  <price>10</price>
  <content>heinous amount of unwanted text</content>
  <color>black</color>
 </product>
</document>

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Or better formatted, but with even less defined order of child tags of <product> and ¡assuming all those child tags have no attributes or children! :

use strict;
use XML::Rules;

my @contents = ('first trimmed content', 'second trimmed content');

my $parser = XML::Rules->new(
  style => 'filter',
  ident => ' ', stripspaces => 3,
  start_rules => {
    content => 'skip',
  },
  rules => {
    _default => 'content array',
    product => sub {
      my ($tag, $attr, $parser) = @_[0,1,4];
      $attr->{content} = [ $contents[ $parser->{pad}++ ] ];
      return $tag => $attr;
    }
  },
);

$parser->filter(\*DATA);

__DATA__
<document>
 <product>
  <date>2008-10-15</date>
  <price>124</price>
  <content>heinous amount of unwanted text</content>
  <color>red</color>
 </product>
 <product>
  <date>2009/01/30</date>
  <price>10</price>
  <content>heinous amount of unwanted text</content>
  <color>black</color>
 </product>
</document>

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If the order is important you'd have to take the first code and tweak the handler of the <product> tag to insert the content at the right place of the array @{$attr->{_content}}.

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In reply to Re: Prune Twig From Huge XML File by Jenda
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