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HTML::TreeBuilder handles that simple case:

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;

my $sgml = <<SGML;
<greeting class="simple">Hello, world!
SGML

my $root = HTML::TreeBuilder->new ();

$root->ignore_unknown (0);
$root->parse ($sgml);

print $root->guts (0)->as_XML ();
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Prints:

<greeting class="simple">Hello, world!</greeting>
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although I'd not guarantee it will accept everything a real SGML document may contain.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re^3: read a file and insert closing tags if not present by GrandFather
in thread read a file and insert closing tags if not present by valavanp

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