I can't see from the docs how to get encoded data back

I didn't find a way either, but probably this is intentional because you shouldn't. It is bad practice. As soon as Perl has parsed your document into a tree, it is entitled to forget in whatever encoding it was delivered.

If you want encoded data back, then you get to chose the encoding, and encode by yourself.

I also think that lots of Perl module documentation should be revisited with regard to the ominous "UTF-8 flag". The parenthesis "(UTF-8 encoded with UTF8 flag on)" is at least misleading and should best be eradicated: the relevant thing is "character string", as opposed to "binary" string ("bytes" and "encoded" strings are binary for that purpose). For the user of any module it isn't relevant in which encoding Perl stores character strings internally.

In reply to Re^5: UTF-8 and XML::LibXML by haj
in thread UTF-8 and XML::LibXML by davies

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