I am using XML::Simple to parse some XML data. The reason I like it is because it can parse generalized XML::Data without looking at a DTD file. One problem I am running into, however, is when I run into data containing something like the following. 
$data = "<some_tag> blah blah blah &special; blah blah </some_tag>";

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The &special; is causing XML::Simple to choke. When I do the following 
$data =~ s/&(.*);//g;

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I have no problems parsing my XML tree. Is there any way to force XML::Simple to ignore those types of characters? I noticed that there is an option labelled "NoEscape" that deals with those types of characters, but it is only for the XMLout method.

Any ideas?

In reply to XML::Simple and problem characters by Grundle

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