I can't seem to get XML::Twig to properly output an element that contains HTML tags. I'm trying to generate an XML document as input into another program that doesn't like CDATA elements. 
Input: <pre>won't escape properly - uggh!</pre>
Desired Output: &lt;pre&gt;won't escape properly - uggh!&lt;/pre&gt;

Actual Output:
&lt;pre>won't escape properly - uggh!&lt;/pre>;

or

&amp;lt;pre&gt;won't escape properly - uggh!&amp;lt;/pre&gt;

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The code snippet below produces the latter results and you can generate the former by commenting the output_text_filter line: 
use XML::Twig;
my $tTwig = XML::Twig->new( pretty_print => 'indented',
                            output_text_filter => 'html',
                          );
$tTwig->set_xml_version( '1.0' );
$tTwig->set_output_encoding( 'utf-8' );
my $tLog = XML::Twig::Elt->new( 'log', q(<pre>won't escape properly - 
+uggh!</pre>) );
$tTwig->set_root( $tLog );
$tTwig->print;

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blitzkrieg

In reply to XML::Twig and HTML Entities by blitzkrieg

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