The only thing i prefer when munging HTML is meeting my clients' needs while working in the framework that they have. The ideals proposed by your module are noble indeed, but then the real world rears its ugly head and shatters those notions. Build it, and they will change it. My issues, however, are not with what Perl solutions to use, but rather how easy it is for someone post what the OP did and get away with it. Clever trolls be among us.

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(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)