Ok, well-formed it is! I'm all self taught in all of this world so thanks for the correct term to be using in this situation.

As for the CDATA, this tool is for crawling and analysis of our clients web sites. I'm sure we all have experienced that a large portion of sites are at best, poorly built on a technical side, and ampersands and other markup characters are often in links, titles and other elements that we collect. I suppose I could check each entry to see if it contains a markup character and CDATA only the ones I need to.

Thanks for the input, I find that often I get confused with documentation, I was never one for being able to understand it, I am a much more hands on kind of learner, albeit, that costs it's own time and frustration, but if my mind doesn't grok it, I have to code and try it until I eventually do get it!

In reply to Re^2: xml::libxml open, add and save not formatting properly by itsscott
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