Hi Monks!! I am trying to use HTML::Parser to extract data of specified HTML tag: 
use strict;
use HTML::Parser;

my $content=<<EOF;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>Some title goes here</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
  <div id="leftcol">
    menu column
  </div>
  <div id="body">
    <p>some text goes here some text goes here<br />
    some text goes here some text goes here</p>
    <p><strong>some header</strong></p>
    <p>some text goes here some text goes here<br />
    some text goes here some text goes here</p>
    <p><img src="img.gif" /> image here</p>
    <p><strong>some header</strong></p>
    <p>some text goes here some text goes here<br />
    some text goes here some text goes here</p>
  </div>
  <div id="rightcol">
    news column
  </div>
</body>
</html>
EOF

my $p = HTML::Parser->new( api_version => 3 );
$p->handler( start => \&start_handler, "self,tagname,attr" );
$p->parse($content);
exit;


sub start_handler {
    my $self = shift;
    my $tagname  = shift;
    my $attr = shift;
    return unless ( $tagname eq 'div' and $attr->{id} eq 'body' );
    $self->handler( text => sub { print shift }, "dtext" );
    $self->handler(end  => sub { shift->eof if shift eq $tagname; }, "
+tagname,self");
}

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In this simplified example it strips HTML inside the <div id="body">...</div> and prints out just text, but I need all html formatting to be untouched. How to achieve this? Thanks! :)

In reply to How to extract untouched content of html tag with HTML::Parser by Lana

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