Please, please, please do not use the ProtocolEncoding option. As mirod said, if your source XML document a) does not declare an encoding and b) is not UTF8 (or UTF16) encoded, then it is not XML! The two preferred options are:

• If you are generating the XML, then you need to include an XML declaration which specifies the encoding
• If the XML is being generated by someone else, then you need to reject it since it is not well formed.

Sure, you might guess that the encoding is ISO-8859-1 and it might seem to work if you force it with ProtocolEncoding, but the encoding might actually be CP1252 and the differences haven't tripped you up - yet.

The encodings section of the Perl XML FAQ may be useful.

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