Thanks. This module really is working for me. In fact it is the ONLY module that meets my requirements. HTML::Restrict might work but it uses Moose. Actually I want "title" attributes on anchors and I did not not like the handling of stripped code, so I had to subclass and add a few method overrides. But altogether it is petty easy to use. I am building up some test cases and adding in Benchmark'ing. It looks like writing a HTML::Parser subclass might be the only alternative (and faster) but requiring some skill. Have you thought of writing a module that takes a HTML::StripScripts spec and "compiles" it to a faster, slimmer direct subclass of HTML::Parser?