XML::Parser shouldn't be ignoring the Company A&; I think what you'll find is that it treats the title as three pieces of character data:

  1. Company A
  2. &
  3. B Information

And it will treat these as three separate parse events. Quick demonstration:

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Parser;

my $in_title;
my $parser = XML::Parser->new(
    Handlers => {
        Start => sub { $in_title++ if $_[1] eq 'Title' },
        End   => sub { $in_title-- if $_[1] eq 'Title' },
        Char  => sub { say "CHAR: $_[1]" if $in_title },
    },
);

$parser->parse(<<'XML');
<Document>
    <Title>Company A&amp;B Information</Title>
    <Abstract>Foo</Abstract>
</Document>
XML

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XML::Parser is very bare-bones, and sees the job of translating those parse events into a useful data structure as being very much your job.

Personally I prefer DOM-based XML parsers, such as XML::LibXML which parse the entire file into a tree and allow you to manipulate and navigate that tree using the same DOM interface which web browsers expose to Javascript.

package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name

In reply to Re: XML::Parser - Usage of &amp; by tobyink
in thread XML::Parser - Usage of &amp; by sumeetgrover

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