Hi ikegami,

Thanks very much for your reply. I didn't have XML::LibXML installed on my PC (Kubuntu), so I went into cpan and installed it, but cpan is complaining: 

cpan[1]> install XML::LibXML
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read '/home/steve/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:29:21 GMT
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.71)                             
Going to read 11 yaml files from /home/steve/.cpan/build/
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9711)                    
DONE                                                     
Restored the state of none (in 0.1883 secs)              
Running install for module 'XML::LibXML'                 
Running make for P/PA/PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.70.tar.gz       
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.45)                      
  Checksum was ok                                        
Scanning cache /home/steve/.cpan/build for sizes         
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+......DONE
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.02)                                
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CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.38)                                  
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Will not use Archive::Tar, need 1.00                                  
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XML-LibXML-1.70/                                                      
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/                                                  
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/                                              
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/                                       
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/DOM.pod                                
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Reader.pm                              
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/InputCallback.pod                      
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/                                   
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Builder.pod                        
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Parser.pm                          
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Builder.pm                         
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Generator.pm                       
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Common.pod                             
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/XPathExpression.pod                    
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Parser.pod                             
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/Text.pod                               
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/RegExp.pod                             
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/ErrNo.pod                              
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/CDATASection.pod                       
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/SAX.pod                                
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XML-LibXML-1.70/lib/XML/LibXML/XPathContext.pm                        
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XML-LibXML-1.70/Changes                                               
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XML-LibXML-1.70/example/xmlns/badguy.xml                              
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XML-LibXML-1.70/example/xmllibxmldocs.pl                              
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XML-LibXML-1.70/example/enc_latin2.html                               
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XML-LibXML-1.70/example/cb_example.pl                                 
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XML-LibXML-1.70/test/relaxng/demo4.rng                                
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XML-LibXML-1.70/test/xinclude/entity.txt                              
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XML-LibXML-1.70/test/xinclude/test.xml                                
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XML-LibXML-1.70/test/textReader/                                      
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XML-LibXML-1.70/test/textReader/countries.xml                         
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XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/                                               
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XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/libxml-libxml-perl.examples                    
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XML-LibXML-1.70/debian/libxml-libxml-perl.docs                        
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/25relaxng.t                                         
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/40reader.t                                          
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/32xpc_variables.t                                   
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/10ns.t                                              
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/14sax.t                                             
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/20extras.t                                          
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/43options.t                                         
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/27new_callbacks_simple.t                            
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/01basic.t                                           
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/80registryleak.t                                    
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/17callbacks.t                                       
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/26schema.t                                          
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/61error.t                                           
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/44extent.t                                          
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/13dtd.t                                             
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/21catalog.t                                         
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/30xpathcontext.t                                    
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/16docnodes.t                                        
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/08findnodes.t                                       
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/42common.t                                          
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XML-LibXML-1.70/t/31xpc_functions.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/60struct_error.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/41xinclude.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/02parse.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/05text.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/15nodelist.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/28new_callbacks_multiple.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/90threads.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/09xpath.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/t/29id.t
XML-LibXML-1.70/xpath.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/ppport.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/xpath.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/README
XML-LibXML-1.70/perl-libxml-sax.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/dom.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/LibXML.pod
XML-LibXML-1.70/LibXML.pm
XML-LibXML-1.70/perl-libxml-sax.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/Makefile.PL
XML-LibXML-1.70/perl-libxml-mm.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/Av_CharPtrPtr.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/MANIFEST
XML-LibXML-1.70/TODO
XML-LibXML-1.70/typemap
XML-LibXML-1.70/xpathcontext.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/Av_CharPtrPtr.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/dom.h
XML-LibXML-1.70/docs/
XML-LibXML-1.70/docs/libxml.dbk
XML-LibXML-1.70/LICENSE
XML-LibXML-1.70/perl-libxml-mm.c
XML-LibXML-1.70/LibXML.xs
XML-LibXML-1.70/META.yml
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.21)
  No 'Makefile' created
, won't make
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install

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It says no Makfile, and it's right. So I went into the directory. There is a Makefile.PL, So I executed it and I got "Makefile.PL: command not found": 

root@steve-desktop:~/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.70-XzsnvX# dir
Av_CharPtrPtr.c  Changes  docs   dom.h    lib        LibXML.pod  LICEN
+SE      MANIFEST  perl-libxml-mm.c  perl-libxml-sax.c  ppport.h  t   
+  TODO     xpath.c         xpath.h
Av_CharPtrPtr.h  debian   dom.c  example  LibXML.pm  LibXML.xs   Makef
+ile.PL  META.yml  perl-libxml-mm.h  perl-libxml-sax.h  README    test
+  typemap  xpathcontext.h
root@steve-desktop:~/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.70-XzsnvX# Makefile.PL
Makefile.PL: command not found
root@steve-desktop:~/.cpan/build/XML-LibXML-1.70-XzsnvX#

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I'm now looking for another Parser - maybe I could just use a regular expression?

Update I've tried this regular expression and it seems to work. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

my $xml = '<?xml version="1.0"?><root>&#237;</root>';
print($xml,"\n");
$xml =~ s/\&\#(\d*);/chr($1)/gse;
print($xml,"\n");

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So thanks again for pointing me in the right direction, ikegami, as always.

Regards

Steve

In reply to Re^5: Do I have a unicode problem, or is this something else? by Steve_BZ
in thread Do I have a unicode problem, or is this something else? by Steve_BZ

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