XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol

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

Hi Monks

The following Symbol does not parsing in XML::Parse and its not validated, eventhough I use CDATA.

ż (¿)

$parser="<symbols><![CDATA[Testing for Symbol ż]]><symbols>"

$parser = new XML::Parser(Style => 'Tree');

Can you please provide your guidance ?

Thanks in Advance!!

Gopal R

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Re: XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol by mirod (Canon) on Jul 11, 2013 at 10:57 UTC
What's the error message? Without it I can only guess... ... that maybe the inverted question mark is encoded in extended-ascii (ISO-8859-1). Since you don't specify an encoding in the XML string, it is assumed to be in UTF-8, and you should get an "invalid character" or such error. If in your real code the string is hard-coded in the program file, then you need to `use utf8;`. If you get the data from a file, you need to either add an XML declaration specifying the encoding, pre-process the data to convert it to utf-8 or use the `ProtocolEncoding` option when you create the XML::Parser object (I would advise against this last solution though, better to keep the info about the encoding of the data with the data than in the code).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol by gopalr (Priest) on Jul 11, 2013 at 12:17 UTC
It is working fine if I use `ProtocolEncoding` `$parser = new XML::Parser(Style => 'Tree'); $xml = $parser->parse($xml, ProtocolEncoding => 'ISO-8859-1')` [download] I have one more clarification, If we use `ISO-8859-1`, will it support to `UTF-8` as well ?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol by mirod (Canon) on Jul 11, 2013 at 13:35 UTC
no Did you really read the part where I advised you NOT to use ProtocolEncoding? If you have to deal with XML, please educate yourself about encodings, it will pay off in the very short term.	[reply]
Re^4: XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol by gopalr (Priest) on Jul 12, 2013 at 12:19 UTC
Re^5: XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol by mirod (Canon) on Jul 12, 2013 at 12:51 UTC
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Re: XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol by choroba (Cardinal) on Jul 11, 2013 at 10:55 UTC
Works for me. I had to tweak your code a bit to make it run: `#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use utf8; use XML::Parser; my $xml = "<symbols><![CDATA[Testing for Symbol ż]]></symbols>"; my $parser = 'XML::Parser'->new; $parser->parse($xml);` [download] لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply] [d/l]