Greetings enlightened ones!

I'm experiencing the following difficulty:

using XML::Parse, when an unescaped, single
quote is encountered in the element value, the parser quits stating:

"not well-formed (invalid token) at line 26, column 33, byte 725 at usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 187"

I have managed to pinpoint this to be the single quote in Captains Chair 
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<newcars>
  <option>
<seq>20</seq>
    <category>Seats</category>
    <primary>21B</primary>
    <secondary>21Bb</secondary>
    <option_desc>Second Row Captain's Chairs</option_desc>
    <price_desc>Cloth</price_desc>
    <retail>530</retail>
    <invoice>451</invoice>
    <disc_retail>0</disc_retail>
    <disc_invoice>0</disc_invoice>
  </option>
</newcars>

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If anyone knows something about this, has dealt with it in the past,
has an idea, thinks XML is retarded, and impractical,
or just wants to let me know what an idiot, and pseudo programmer I am...
Please do, I have been struggling with this for a week.

Mooo chos grassy ass:
 ~ vili

In reply to single quotes in XML values by vili

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