Dear All,
I am having some data which will be stored in XML format and this needs to be parsed using the parser module XML::Parser and XML::Parser::Expat.
This data consists of some special characters like "�, �, �, �, �, �, �, �". But when I try to parse the particular record with these special characters using the method parse(), I got an error "not well-formed (invalid token)". Here I am posing my code:

sub parse {
  my $self = shift;
  my $arg  = shift;
  my @expat_options = ();
  my ($key, $val);
  while (($key, $val) = each %{$self}) {
    push(@expat_options, $key, $val)
      unless exists $self->{Non_Expat_Options}->{$key};
  }
  
  my $expat = new XML::Parser::Expat(@expat_options, @_);
  my %handlers = %{$self->{Handlers}};
  my $init = delete $handlers{Init};
  my $final = delete $handlers{Final};
  
  $expat->setHandlers(%handlers);
  
  if ($self->{Base}) {
    $expat->base($self->{Base});
  }
 
  &$init($expat)
    if defined($init);
  
  my @result = ();
  my $result;
  eval {
    $result = $expat->parse($arg);
  };
  my $err = $@;
  if ($err) {
    $expat->release;
    die $err;
  }
  
  if ($result and defined($final)) {
    if (wantarray) {
      @result = &$final($expat);
    }
    else {
      $result = &$final($expat);
    }
  }
  
  $expat->release;
 
  return unless defined wantarray;
  return wantarray ? @result : $result;
}
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where $arg will contain the xml data to be parsed which is having the special characters to be parsed. The xml data will look like this :

<record>
  <source-app >ABC</source-app>
  <ref-type>6</ref-type>
  <contributors>
    <authors>
      <author>
        <style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dvoøák, Petr
+</style>
      </author>
    </authors>
  </contributors>
  <titles>
    <title>
      <style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Systematická te
+ologie I : ø�*mskokatolická perspektiva</style>
    </title>
  </titles>
  <pages>
    <style>285 s.</style>
  </pages>
  <edition>
    <style>1. vyd.</style>
  </edition>
  <keywords>
    <keyword>
      <style>uèen�* katolické c�*rkve</style>
    </keyword>
  </keywords>
  <dates>
    <year>
      <style>1996</style>
    </year>
  </dates>
  <pub-location>
    <style>Brno&#xD;Praha</style>
  </pub-location>
  <publisher>
    <style>Centrum pro studium demokracie a kultury ;&#xD;Èeská køe
+sanská akademie</style>
  </publisher>
  <notes>
    <style>uspoøádali Francis S. Fiorenza a John P. Galvin ; [z angl
+iètiny pøeložili Petr Dvoøák ... et al.]&#xD;20 cm&#xD;Pozn.&#xD
+;Pozn. o autorech traktátù&#xD;Zkratky&#xD;Bibliogr.&#xD;Odkazy na 
+lit.&#xD;Jmenný a vìcný rejstø�*k</style>
  </notes>
</record>
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The data corresponding to the tags in the above xml is Czec. My problem is that the Parser.pm is not able to parse these characters. Could anyone please help me out in solving this one. Thanks alot.

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