The HTML looks fine to me. Many HTML elements have optional end tags. <p> is one of them. The following is valid HTML:

<p>I like:
<ul>
  <li>Chocolate
  <li>Pizza
  <li>Mexican food
</ul>
<p>Yet I don't like Mexican chocolate pizza!
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Many HTML elements have optional end tags.

Yes, I know - the reason I called it "broken", which admittedly was probably too strong a word (parent updated), is because of the inconsistent closing tags, suggesting at the very least that not very much attention to detail was paid in the production of the HTML.

Many thanks again to everyone for all your great help!

All your solutions are very tempting. Especially regexp code always looks like pure magic to me. :-)

For the moment I've decided to go with the Mojo::DOM alternative, since I'm still very unexperienced with Perl, and since it's understandable for me at least to a little extent.

So far it gives me really promising results. There's this wall I ran into, though:

  <div class="address">
          <div class="icon"></div>
          <address>
            Sample Street 123<br/>45678 Randomcity          </address>
        </div>
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In there, the fields "Street name", "Street number", "ZIP code" and "City name" have been carelessly filled into just a single field, separated by the <br/> element.

With your help I'm now able to access the whole string with $dom->find('address'), but no matter what I do, the <br/> element in it always gets removed, so it seems to me that I cannot search inside the address string. I thought this might be because Perl treats it as white space, but I wasn't able to find anything useful.

Could you please give me a hint?

no matter what I do, the <br/> element in it always gets removed, so it seems to me that I cannot search inside the address string.

I can't reproduce this (see the output in the [[]]s below), and you haven't said what your expected output is or what you mean by "search inside the address string" - see How do I post a question effectively? and Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example. As an example, I can replace the <br/> like so:

use warnings;
use strict;
use Mojo::DOM;
use Mojo::Util qw/trim/;

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new(<<'HTML');
  <div class="address">
          <div class="icon"></div>
          <address>
            Sample Street 123<br/>45678 Randomcity          </address>
        </div>
HTML

my $addr = $dom->find('.address address')->first;
print "[[$addr]]\n";
$addr->find('br')->map('replace',"\n");
print "[", trim($addr->text), "]\n";

__END__

[[<address>
            Sample Street 123<br>45678 Randomcity          </address>]
+]
[Sample Street 123
45678 Randomcity]
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Edit: Forgot to remove the "(updated)" from the node's title before it got a reply. At the time of writing this node and its reply were not actually updated.

Many thanks haukex!

That it's not reproducable is due to my own terrible incompetence. :-) I had tried to modify your example for the phone/fax section in such a way, that it would put these pairs into %hash:

{"Street name" => "Sample Street",
"House number" => "123",
"ZIP Code" => "45678",
"City name" => "Randomcity"}
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With all the things I had tried, I only managed to get the string "Sample Street 12345678 Randomcity" into one of the fields, and the other one then was left empty, like:

{"Sample Street 12345678 Randomcity" => ""}
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I guess my main mistake was to assume, that it's necessary to start out from the $dom all over again, for each and every HTML element. The crazy idea I had was to somehow grab "Sample Street 123" into one variable (starting from the "address" element), and "45678 Randomcity" into another, by somehow targeting, and starting from, the first <br/> element after the "address" element.

I'm still not sure why my <br/> always got stripped away, maybe because of my misunderstanding of how the "map" works:

use warnings;
use strict;
use Mojo::DOM;
use Mojo::Util qw/trim/;
use Data::Dump;

my $dom = Mojo::DOM->new(<<'HTML');
  <div class="address">
          <div class="icon"></div>
          <address>
            Sample Street 123<br/>45678 Randomcity          </address>
        </div>
HTML

my %hash_address = @{ $dom->find('address')->map(sub {
return ( trim($_->text), "This_is_the_address_content" ) }) };
dd \%hash_address;

__END__

{
  "Sample Street 12345678 Randomcity" => "This_is_the_address_content"
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}
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Your solution is very elegant indeed, many thanks! :-)