I'm confused. On more than one aspect of the question.

I'm confused about why you want to avoid XML::Generator's auto-escaping of data. Because when you use an XML parser, the data should be auto-unescaped.

I'm also confused about your data format. Using imageurl# as tagnames seems to be the equivalent of, well, using $var1, $var2, $var3, etc., and variable names and then trying to access them via eval STRING. Instead, I would expect: 

<imageinfo>
 <image number="1">
  <url>http://www.company.com/images/photo1.jpg</url>
  <caption>Caption 1</caption>
 </image>
 <image number="2">
  <url>http://www.company.com/images/photo2.jpg</url>
  <caption>Caption 2</caption>
 </image>
 <image number="3">
  <url>http://www.company.com/images/photo3.jpg</url>
  <caption>Caption 3</caption>
 </image>
 <image number="4">
  <url>http://www.company.com/images/photo4.jpg</url>
  <caption>Caption 4</caption>
 </image>
</imageinfo>

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This should make things easier to deal with in many ways. (The number attribute probably shouldn't be there either.)

I'm just not sure why you're doing things this way - both the attempt to bypass escaping, and the data layout.

In reply to Re: nested loops and escaping in XML::Generator by Tanktalus
in thread nested loops and escaping in XML::Generator by geektron

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