Yup, i'm pretty sure you'll have to preprocess

You can glean some regexes from http://search.cpan.org/~johnd/ASP4-1.073/

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JOHND/ASP4-1.073/lib/ASP4/PageParser.pm 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict; use warnings;

my $asp = <<'__HTML__';
<input value="abc" /> abc &nbsp; abc
<% abc ( '<input value="abc" /> abc &nbsp; abc <span> %>', $abc ); %>
__HTML__



use HTML::Tree;
my $t = 'HTML::TreeBuilder'->new;
$t->ignore_unknown(0);

$t->parse( $asp ); $t->dump; print "\n\n";


$asp =~ s{
    <%
    ((?:
        '[^']+'
        |
        "[^"]+'
        |
        \$?[\w\s\(\);,]+
        |
        [^%]+
    )+)
    %>
}{
    my $content = $1;
    HTML::Entities::encode_entities( $content );
    qq'<yoASP content="$content">'
}gsex;

$t->parse( $asp ); $t->dump; print "\n\n";

#~ and reverse it
$asp =~ s/<yoASP content="([^"]+)">/
    my $content = $1;
    HTML::Entities::decode_entities( $content );
    $content;
/gsei;
print "$asp\n\n";

__END__
<html> @0 (IMPLICIT)
  <head> @0.0 (IMPLICIT)
  <body> @0.1 (IMPLICIT)
    <input value="abc" /> @0.1.0
    " abc á abc <% abc ( '"
    <input value="abc" /> @0.1.2
    " abc á abc "
    <span> @0.1.4
      " %>', $abc ); %>"


<html> @0 (IMPLICIT)
  <head> @0.0 (IMPLICIT)
  <body> @0.1 (IMPLICIT)
    <input value="abc" /> @0.1.0
    " abc á abc <% abc ( '"
    <input value="abc" /> @0.1.2
    " abc á abc "
    <span> @0.1.4
      " %>', $abc ); %> "
      <input value="abc" /> @0.1.4.1
      " abc á abc "
      <yoasp content=" abc ( &#39;&lt;input value=&quot;abc&quot; /&gt
+; abc &amp;nbsp; abc &lt;span&gt; %&gt;&#39;, $abc ); "> @0.1.4.3


<input value="abc" /> abc &nbsp; abc
 abc ( '<input value="abc" /> abc &nbsp; abc <span> %>', $abc );

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