Enlightened Monks!

Every now and then, I have to add several news items to a static website. It's not a difficult task, but, as I have nothing to do with the website in question, I'd like to provide a tool for the users to publish content by themselves.

The content to be published is fairly simple:

 
<div class="news">
    <h2>Something important</h2>
    <p>Something important happened again, and we're proud to announce
+ it.</p>
    <h4>Added by: John Doe, 01-01-1970</h4>
</div>
[download]

The tool I had in mind is a Perl/Tk app, with four form fields: for the title, content, author and date. After the user fills in the blanks, and submits the data, some simple data validation would be performed. If the data is OK, the webpage will be downloaded from the server, and edited in place.

Some marker at the top of the news item list ( <!-- PLACE CONTENT BELOW -->) would indicate the place to put new items, and would be replaced upon edit (by the same marker and the added news item). After the edit, the page would be uploaded to the server with Net::FTP.

I seek Perl Wisdom regarding the following questions:

• Does the whole thing make sense? Or are there some tools you would recommend instead? I found something called Unify, which seems very non-intrusive and simple, but using a tool like this would require some additional work (the hosting site does not allow PHP, so the service would have to be upgraded), and only the news items are updated (almost five years, no other requests). But maybe the benefits are worth it.
• What could I use for validation? Will HTML::Strip be enough?
• Is the method OK (page download, in-place edit, upload)?
• What else should I be aware of?

All suggestions will be welcome.

regards,
Luke Jefferson

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