One thing I personally do when I get garbage-code like that is to open it in your favorite text editor... and simply reformat every tag to be on a newline. I do it in the editor vs. doing it in Perl, because this way I get to look at the code line by line, and try and figure out where its fsck'd.
Just my $0.02

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