Hello I'm using XML::Simple to read a latin1 (iso-8859-1) xml file and everything is great until it encounters some &#xxx style entities. Strings containing those entities seem to be double encoded or some other weirdness:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<foo>
<p>foo</p>
<p>foo with an &#8211;</p>
<p>some latin1 encoded chars: æøå ÆØÅ</p>
<p>same, but this time whith an &#8211; .. æøå ÆØÅ</p> 
<p>same, but this thime with an &#8221; instead .. : æøå ÆØÅ</p>
</foo>
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Read by this script:

my $xmldata = XMLin( $ARGV[0], ForceArray=>1, KeyAttr=>{meta=>"name"} 
+, SuppressEmpty=>"") or die "Could not parse xml data: $!";

foreach my $f ( @{$xmldata->{'p'} } ) {
  print $f;
  print "\n";
}

print Dumper($xmldata);
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Produces:

 ./test2.pl foo.xml 
foo
Wide character in print at ./test2.pl line 12.
foo with an –
some latin1 encoded chars: æøå ÆØÅ
Wide character in print at ./test2.pl line 12.
same, but this time whith an – .. æøå ÆØÅ
Wide character in print at ./test2.pl line 12.
same, but this thime with an ” instead .. : æøå ÆØÃ&#13
+3;
$VAR1 = {
          'p' => [
                   'foo',
                   "foo with an \x{2013}",
                   'some latin1 encoded chars: æøå ÆØÅ',
                   "same, but this time whith an \x{2013} .. \x{c3}\x{
+a6}\x{c3}\x{b8}\x{c3}\x{a5} \x{c3}\x{86}\x{c3}\x{98}\x{c3}\x{85}",
                   "same, but this thime with an \x{201d} instead .. :
+ \x{c3}\x{a6}\x{c3}\x{b8}\x{c3}\x{a5} \x{c3}\x{86}\x{c3}\x{98}\x{c3}\
+x{85}"
                 ]
        };
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Looks like its double encoded?
Any ideas?

Thanx

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