Perl Markup Libraries

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm interested in creating some sort of web board with some features of HTML enabled (links, maybe images) but not necessarily HTML for security reasons. What's a good markup library that can parse into it? Alternatively, is HTML::StripScripts as good as advertised?

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Re: Perl Markup Libraries by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 08, 2009 at 20:18 UTC
What's a good markup library that can parse into it? Text::Markdown, and there are many others in that vein. Try some CPAN searches for more. ...is HTML::StripScripts as good as advertised? Not sure. But there are alternatives. HTML::Scrubber and HTML::Sanitizer come to mind. Check them all out before "buying." I usually do my own filtering of HTML through XML::LibXML; it's fast, easy to pass around document objects, and can guarantee correctness but it's a bit more bare metal.	[reply]

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Re: Perl Markup Libraries
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 08, 2009 at 20:18 UTC

What's a good markup library that can parse into it?

Text::Markdown, and there are many others in that vein. Try some CPAN searches for more.

...is HTML::StripScripts as good as advertised?

Not sure. But there are alternatives. HTML::Scrubber and HTML::Sanitizer come to mind. Check them all out before "buying." I usually do my own filtering of HTML through XML::LibXML; it's fast, easy to pass around document objects, and can guarantee correctness but it's a bit more bare metal.

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