Ok, that's extremely helpful information. The data format is a "I wanna slap the guy who forced this on the world" answer. I can accept that. There are many people I know who deserve slapping. Of course, I say this with a severe Captain-Jack-Sparrow accent ;-)

The first part of your node, however, is really helpful. I didn't understand the problem at first. Now, however, it looks like you want to do this (based only on the docs, not on trying it myself): 

use XML::Generator escape => 1;

$generator->imageinfo( \$imageSection );

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To me, this seems like a reasonable tradeoff. You're saying, "Trust me, this is valid XML here." And you're right - it is. Other than abandoning XML::Generator, this seems like your best option. You get escaping most of the time (which is what you should want), and can override it in the rare circumstance where you really want to.

Personally, I wouldn't have used XML::Generator, but XML::Twig, based on my XML decision tree. But the wonderful thing about Perl is that there's so many ways to do things - do it the way that makes the most sense to you ;-)

In reply to Re^3: nested loops and escaping in XML::Generator by Tanktalus
in thread nested loops and escaping in XML::Generator by geektron

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