I've been playing around with XML as a way of easing maintenance of my personal website, but mostly just as something to play around with.

Recently I've been using XML::XPath and it seems to do most of the thing I want, however it also seems to strip out entities from the XML it reads.

For example, I have an XHTML input file which I read in, process and write out. When I read it in it contains entities such as é (that's é), when I write it out again they have been deleted. This means that things like 'Port aux Français' come out as 'Port aux Franais', not good.

Any ideas how I can stop this?

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Kevin O'Rourke

In reply to XML::XPath and entities by kevin_i_orourke

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