Hello all, I am trying to use HTML::Scrubber to strip unwanted HTML tags from my data. Unfortunately, it works a little too well and strips hrefs from anchor tags unbidden. Here's an example of before and after output: 

<a href="bsc_view.asp?id=217247&amp;DataType=busop">PROJET DE REHABILI
+TATION DU PERIMETRE DU BAS MANGOKY</a>

[download]

After: 

<a>PROJET DE REHABILITATION DU PERIMETRE DU BAS MANGOKY</a>

[download]

Following is the test code I wrote: 

 
#!/usr/bin/perl


use HTML::Scrubber;
$htmlstring = '<a href="bsc_view.asp?id=217247&amp;DataType=busop">PRO
+JET DE REHABILITATION DU PERIMETRE DU BAS MANGOKY</a>';

$scrubber = HTML::Scrubber->new();

$scrubber->default(1);
$foo = $scrubber->scrub($htmlstring);


print "foo = $foo\n";

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The documentation says that calling the 'default' method with a param of 1 allows all tags, so why is it nuking the href's? I'm using Ubuntu linux 11.10 and perl version 5.12, if that matters. Any help appreciated...

In reply to HTML::Scrubber stripping hrefs when I don't want it to by bbrelin

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