I have some very simple XML that I want to convert into a hash (sample below): 
<rec id = 'F600' type = 'J'>
<author>A. S. Bommarius, K. Drauz, W. Hummel, M.-R. Kula, C. Wandrey</
+author>
(snippage)
</rec>

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Most of the time XML::Simple converts this just fine. Unfortunately if one of the author names contains an umlaut (ö or ü or ä) then I get this error from XML::Parser (presumably called by XML::Simple):
"Error: not well-formed at line 2, column 18, byte 49 at c:/Perl/site/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 168"
where the character specified is the umlauted character.

I'm not finding an obvious way to tell XML::Simple that umlauts are OK (i.e. that I'm using ISO Latin-1). I would prefer not to have to do s/ö/&#246;/ lines before I use XML::Simple although that clearly is a possibility.

FWIW
XML::Simple Version: 1.06;
XML::Parser Version: 2.27;

Dingus

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