Using my module, I can reproduce the HTML I was given and supress the printing of certain tags, and print tags only to a given level:

use YAPE::HTML;
$p = YAPE::HTML->new($CONTENT);

1 while $p->next;  # to build the tree

@exclude = qw( a img );
$level = 2;

for ($p->root) {  # top-level elements
  print $_->fullstring(\@exclude, $level);
}
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I'm adding a feature to change it from allowing an exclude list to allowing either an exclude list or an "exclude all except..." list. If the previous code was given:

<b>Hi <i>there <s>folks!</s></i></b>

<br><br>

Visit my <img src="naked_woman.jpg"><a
href="http://www.pornsite.com/">porn site</a>!
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then output would be:

<b>Hi <i>there folks!</i></b>

<br><br>

Visit my porn site!
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The <s> tag was removed because it was 3 layers down, and I requested only 2 layers.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker