Hello,

I'm trying to parse an XML document. I keep getting the following error on these two records:

"Wide character in print at..."

I did some research but couldn't figure out what this means. I know it has to do with the special characters but not sure how to handle them. I'm trying to parse the info out and then print it to a textfile.

Thanks in advance! 

XML:
<list>
<article>The Doctor&#8217;s Field Manual</article>
<article>Technician&#x2019;s Introduction</article>
</list>

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I'm using: 

use XML::Twig;
use XML::XPath;
use XML::XPath::XMLParser;
use XML::Twig::XPath;

my $xpathTitle = "//article";
my @title = $twig->find_nodes ($xpathTitle);
$Title = $title[0]->text();
print $Title;  #this is where the error occurs

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