Kind of hackish... but as the start handler is being called before the text handler, you could store the tag name in a global variable, which you can then use in the text method to decorate the content as desired: 

...
my $tagname;
sub start {
        my ($self, $tag, $attr, $attrseq, $origtext) = @_;
        $tagname = $tag;  # store tag name for later use

        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
        my $tagged_text = $text !~ /^\s*$/ ? "<$tagname>$text</$tagnam
+e>" : $text;
        if ($content_flag)    { $main_content    .= $tagged_text; }
}
...

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Output: 


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

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(Might need some further tweaking (like the $text !~ /^\s*$/ ? ...) to handle edge cases — but you get the idea.)

In reply to Re: Parsing HTML with tags intact by Anonyrnous Monk
in thread Parsing HTML with tags intact by mr_p

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