how xmlin dont escape specials characters

spe31500 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks, First, sorry for my english (i'm french!) I use XMLout with option noescape because i want to escape by myself the special caracters as & < and so on ... But when i read my file with XMLin, & is translate to & on certain unix platform (Redhat CentOS), it is not the same on Redhat 5.0 ??? I search an idea to read my xml file without escape special caracters ..... Thanks for your help SPE

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Re: how xmlin dont escape specials characters by NetWallah (Canon) on Mar 11, 2013 at 17:14 UTC
First - in the absence of explicit confirmation, I'm making the following assumptions: You are using XML::Simple to parse XML You are trying to process incoming XML that contains "&" and expect that to remain intact Same for "<" It works (i.e does NOT translate) on Redhat 4? CENTOS ? but does not work (i.e. translates escapes to a single character) on RedHat 5 So - to help analyze the issue, please identify perl versions, and XML::Simple versions on these platforms. Most people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.	[reply]
Re^2: how xmlin dont escape specials characters by spe31500 (Initiate) on Mar 12, 2013 at 07:29 UTC
Yes for the 3 first points. It works (i.e does NOT translate) on Redhat5 with versions perl-5.8.8-10, perl-XML-simple-2.14-4, perl-XML-Parser-2.34-6 Its does not work (i.e translate) on CentOS with verions perl-5.10.1-119, perl-XML-Simple-2.18.6, perl-XML-Parser-2.36-7 I dont use Redhat4 Thanks	[reply]