Converting utf8 characters to named and numeric entities

Adithyakiran.k has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I need help in writing a perl program to convert an xml file which has utf8 characters to their respective named entities for some files and to their numbered entities for some other files.

for example, below is some text from input file

<element1> Some sample text with “special characters” in the file </element1>

Below is sample output I am looking for Case 1: (Numbered entities)

<element1> Some sample text with “special characters” in the file </element1>

Below is sample output I am looking for Case 2: (Named entities)

<element1> Some sample text with “special characters” in the file </element1>

Thanks in Advance !

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Re: Converting utf8 characters to named and numeric entities by tobyink (Canon) on Jan 21, 2014 at 10:16 UTC
HTML::Entities, HTML::HTML5::Entities, etc... `use Moops; class Cow :rw { has name => (default => 'Ermintrude') }; say Cow->new->name`	[reply]
Re: Converting utf8 characters to named and numeric entities by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 21, 2014 at 14:37 UTC
Note that the only characters you need to escape in XML are `<>&` and in attributes also `"`. The rest of the permissible Unicode codepoints can simply be written in the document's character encoding, provided you specify the encoding in the `<?xml?>` header like this: `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>` [download] (Or if you leave it blank, the XML standard says it must be UTF-8, but sometimes you can find tools that don't adhere to that standard). Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l] [select]