Can you try slurping in the XML content, and using perl to zap the encoding, before feeding to XML::Twig ?

That's what I figured I would need to do (reading in 128 MiB chunks in this case; 73 GiB is a bit much to slurp in all at once ;) ). I just wanted to see if there was an "official" method before I broke out the full brute-force nuclear option.

(Of course it probably goes without saying that the ideal solution is to fix this fluster-cluck of an XML travesty...)

EDIT:

I just saw the SO link in your update after I posted my reply. That particular example will not work in this because the data is not UTF-16 even though the encoding says otherwise.

In reply to Re^2: XML::Twig - Parsing XML file with incorrect encoding in declaration by ateague
in thread [SOLVED] XML::Twig - Parsing XML file with incorrect encoding in declaration by ateague

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