If your solution doesn't absolutely, positively have to be in Perl, then maybe a call to HTML Tidy would be the appropriate solution. It takes broken input and does its best to send it back to you as clean HTML. I use it in a lot of my projects.
Another solution I use is to not allow HTML formatting in user input, but maybe you don't want to force your users into learning one of the various HTML shorthand languages. Still, using Text::Textile to generate HTML from user input might be a little easier than making sure your users are always creating correct markup on their own.
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<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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