I'm parsing an xml file with libxml. It's got lots of special characters in it. It has the line at the top declarings its encoding type: encoding="ISO-8859-1" I figured I would try and convert it to utf-8 before I parse and put into a mysql db, but this is not working. My code is below - what am I doing wrong? 
$converted=Text::Iconv->new("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8");
$confile = $converter->convert($file);
open(INFILE, $confile).....
..... parse the file...

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I still end up with errors on the special chars - ending tag mismatch, error parsing attribute name, etc.

In reply to parse xml file using libxml - and Text:Iconv by kathys39

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