HTML::TreeBuilder Remove all HTML

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I am trying to use HTML::TreeBuilder to remove ALL html tags from a document other then tags that would put spaces or line breaks in. Those should be replaced with <br> or <p>

Can anyone help me?

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Re: HTML::TreeBuilder Remove all HTML by revdiablo (Prior) on Jun 12, 2005 at 21:27 UTC
HTML::TreeBuilder is a fine module for parsing and working with HTML documents, but in this case you might want to look into using HTML::FormatText instead. It seems to do exactly what you're looking for, which will likely save you time and effort.	[reply]
Re: HTML::TreeBuilder Remove all HTML by borisz (Canon) on Jun 12, 2005 at 19:25 UTC
My hint is to use HTML::TokeParser for that task. Boris	[reply]
Re: HTML::TreeBuilder Remove all HTML by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 12, 2005 at 21:44 UTC
or if you really want to use HTML::TreeBuilder something like this may do the trick: Read more... (2 kB) Read more... test output (289 Bytes) Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: HTML::TreeBuilder Remove all HTML by TedPride (Priest) on Jun 12, 2005 at 20:21 UTC
Replace the tags that put spaces or line breaks in with non-tag characters or patterns, then remove all tags with the module specified above, and replace the non-tag characters or patterns with `<br>` and `<p>`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: HTML::TreeBuilder Remove all HTML by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Jun 13, 2005 at 08:05 UTC
This is unclear to me. Do you mean, remove all tags except for `<br>, <p> and &nbsp?` (Where `&nbsp` isn't even really a tag!) Or do you mean some other thing?	[reply] [d/l] [select]