The problem here is I'm trying to process many such snippets of XML for output as HTML. I suspect its easier in this case to do a substitution regex with the /e parameter instead of going through all the mungeing back from UTF-8.

s/([\x80-\xff])/'&#'.ord($1).';'/eg
appears to work for all the characters I care about.

Update XML::Parser still insists on converting &#NNN; to UTF-8! I didn't notice as mozilla cunningly noted the changed page encoding and displayed automagically as UTF-8. Mutter Mutter Curse Curse - this is a major pain as I'd like the page to remain Latin-1.

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