The way to get the data is to define another handler for Char. This is the line I would use:

$parser->setHandlers(Start => \&start_handler, Char => \&handle_char);
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Somewhere else:

sub handle_char {
  my ($expat, $string) = @_;
  ...

}
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I implement XML parsing as a state machine where a flag gets raised when I go through the start handler for a paricular element and gets lowered when I go through the end handler for that element. I know then when I am in the data handler and the flag is raised I am seeing the data for that element.

I don't know that there is any other way to register for a particular element. I believe that an entity is a thing like & or < or  

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