Hi, I want to use special characters inside xml tags. I want to read and write it in the same way.In this sample m appending " & sons " to the content Joe but, when doing the same I'm getting Joe&, sons instead of Joe & sons. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<customer>
  <address city="Meatball" state="MI" street="17 Beable Ave." zip="826
+49" />
  <address city="gur" state="MI" street="22 Beable Ave." zip="82643t" 
+/>
  <age>42</age>
  <age>30</age>
  <email>joewrigley@jmac.org</email>
  <email>john@jmac.org</email>
  <first-name>Joe</first-name>
  <first-name>John</first-name>
  <surname>Wrigley</surname>
  <surname>Go</surname>
</customer>

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My perl script 


use strict;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $Xml = new XML::Simple (KeyAttr => []);
my $Input_File = "cust.xml";
my $Input = $Xml->XMLin ($Input_File, ForceArray => []);
my $Decl = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>";
foreach my $Name (@{$Input->{'first-name'}})
{
    if ($Name eq "Joe")
    {
        $Name = $Name."& Sons";
    }
}

XMLout($Input, rootname => 'customer',    XMLDECL => $Decl, OutputFile
+ => $Input_File);

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In reply to Special characters used inside xml tags results in error by rohitthumu

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