Hello Monks,

I am trying to parse html text with tags intact. The code I wrote using HTML::Parser strips out the tags.

Is there a way to keep tags intact?

below is my code.

#!/usr/bin/perl
package MyParser;
use base qw(HTML::Parser);
my $main_content="";
sub start {
      my ($self, $tag, $attr, $attrseq, $origtext) = @_;

        if ($tag =~ /^span$/i && $attr->{'class'} =~ /^main-content$/i
+)
        {
            # set if we find <span class="main-content"
            $content_flag = 1;
        }
  }
sub text {
        my ($self, $text) = @_;
        # If we're in <H1>...</H1> or
        if ($content_flag)    { $main_content    .= $text; }
}
my $html = " <html>
    <head>
        <title>Blah</title>
    </head>
    <span class=\"main-content\">
    <bold_text> Here's the body 1 </bold_text>
    <p> para1 </p>
    <p> para2 </p>
    </span>
    </html>";

my $parser = MyParser->new;
$parser->parse("$html");
print "$main_content\n";

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Output I get: 

         Here's the body 1
         para1
         para2

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Output I need is: 

    <bold_text> Here's the body 1 </bold_text>
    <p> para1 </p>
    <p> para2 </p>

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I would like the above output to still have tags, is it possible to do this with HTML::Parser?

In reply to Parsing HTML with tags intact by mr_p

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