Just to get this 100% clear in my not very XMLized head.

An valid XML file with no includes/inline entity definitions may contain:

and nothing else?

The good news is that I do in fact control the source data file so I can do further mungeing. It looks like the best option is to utf-8 the file including convertig to utf-8 the entities that are not defined. Then, since the characters are in fact all valid latin-1 doing my favourite pack/unpack trick to convert UTF-8 back to latin-1 for the display 

sub utf8toNative() {
    my $c = pack("C*",unpack("U*",$_[0]));
    return ((length($c)==length($u))?$_[0]:$c);

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(You have to return the string unchanged if the lengths are the same as new string may be incorrect in such cases)

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In reply to Re: Re: XML::Parser and &entity; by dingus
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