Hi, I have piece of code that seems to work fine but changes some characters to entities: Example: 

  $labl    = XML::XPath::Node::Element->new("images");
        
  $nLabelTxt = XML::XPath::Node::Text->new($item_img);
      
    
  $plabel->appendChild( $nLabelTxt);
    
  $rootElm->appendChild( $labl );

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generates the node as: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
<images> 
  &lt;color>
      
           &lt;description>color1&lt;/description>
         
              &lt;package1>imagePath/file/filename.jpg&lt;/package1>
           
         &lt;package2>imagePath/file/filename2.jpg&lt;package2>
       
   &lt;/color>
  
      &lt;color>
   
         &lt;description>color2 &lt;/description>
      
        &lt;package1>imagePath/file/filename3.jpg&lt;/package1>
           
     &lt;package2>imagePath/file/filename52.jpg&lt;package2>
   
      &lt;/color>
   

</images>

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<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Which is awesome, except for the &lt; instead of < . However note that the images node is fine though!

Now, if I change to code to add another element instead of the Text->new, then I have a differen problem. 

$nLabelTxt                = XML::XPath::Node::Element->new($item_img);

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then the output will be property with < instead of &lt;, but the elements will be like an attribute, as in: 

<images> 
   < 

    <color>
        <description>color1</description>
        <package1>imagePath/file/filename.jpg</package1>
        <package2>imagePath/file/filename2.jpg</package2>
    </color>
    <color>
        <description>color2 </description>
        <package1>imagePath/file/filename3.jpg</package1>
        <package2>imagePath/file/filename52.jpg</package2>
    </color> 
        />
 
 </images>

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Any clue & help on why this is happening? I can understand why the element being created as attribute but the first piece of code and xml it generates puzzles (pi*****) me . Thanks folks.

In reply to Perl entities, UTF8 with xml XPATH by Narend

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