Hi Monks!

I'm stuck. I've used LibXML to create a number of XML documents before, but I'm onto something new now.

I've created a valid XML document, using LibXML. All is well. Now, some nodes have text that includes the big five, &<>"'. When I output the XML using toString or toFile I see that the module has graciously encoded the &'s, <'s, and >'s to their respective entity names for me. Great!

Problem is, it doesn't seem to touch single quotes or double quotes. I've searched and searched. I can't seem to find a solution. I need them converted to entity names.

If I need to, I'll use HTML::Entities, but I was hoping to let LibXML handle it all for me...also, I should note, I really need entity names, not numbers, and I couldn't find a way to make HTML::Entities give me the name for single quotes (always uses entity number instead...probably because of IE).

Anyway, your help is most appreciated!

In reply to LibXML doesn't encode single or double quotes by randonpurcell

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