#!/usr/bin/perl package MyElement; use HTML::Element; #inherit from Element @ISA = qw(HTML::Element); *HTML::Element::_fold_case = \&HTML::Element::_fold_case_NOT; #overwrite the var from base class #constructor sub new { my $class = shift; $class = ref($class) || $class; #invoke base constructor my $self = $class->SUPER::new(@_); bless($self, $class); return $self; } return 1;