Re: Re: XML::Parser and &entity;

Just to get this 100% clear in my not very XMLized head.

An valid XML file with no includes/inline entity definitions may contain:

Valid unicode utf-8 characters
<, &, >, ", '.
Numerical entities, &#nb; or &#xnb;

and nothing else?

The good news is that I do in fact control the source data file so I can do further mungeing. It looks like the best option is to utf-8 the file including convertig to utf-8 the entities that are not defined. Then, since the characters are in fact all valid latin-1 doing my favourite pack/unpack trick to convert UTF-8 back to latin-1 for the display

sub utf8toNative() {
    my $c = pack("C*",unpack("U*",$_[0]));
    return ((length($c)==length($u))?$_[0]:$c);
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(You have to return the string unchanged if the lengths are the same as new string may be incorrect in such cases)

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Re: Re: Re: XML::Parser and &entity; by mirod (Canon) on Nov 26, 2002 at 19:12 UTC
utf-8-ing everything will indeed save you some headache. That will be playing along with the "XML Way", instead of fighting it. Just to be complete though: you can use an other encoding if you specify it in the xml declaration (`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>`. XML::Parser based modules will nevertheless convert the input to utf-8 before passing it to your code.	[reply] [d/l]