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+This module is a bare-bones HTML parser.  It is similar in concept to
+HTML::Parser, but it differs in a couple of important ways.
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+First, HTML::SimpleParse just finds tags and text in the HTML you give it;
+it does not care about the specific content of these tags (though it does
+distinguish between different _types_ of tags, such as comments, starting
+tags like <b>, ending tags like </b>, and so on).
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+Second, HTML::SimpleParse does not create a hierarchical tree of HTML
+content, but rather a simple linear list.  It does not pay any attention to
+balancing start tags with corresponding end tags, or which pairs of tags
+are inside other pairs of tags.
+
+Because of these characteristics, you can make a very effective HTML filter
+by sub-classing HTML::SimpleParse.