Can you be more specific? Are you talking about escaping control characters? Is your example correct? 
use XML::LibXML;
$s = "&ltfoo name=bobby>&ltname&gtrobert</name></foo></p>";
print "before: $s.\n";
$dom = XML::LibXML->load_xml(string => "<root/>");
$dom->findnodes("/root")->[0]->appendText($s);
print $dom->serialize;
$s2 = $dom->findnodes("//text()")->[0]->data;
print "after: $s2.\n";

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Output: 
before: &ltfoo name=bobby>&ltname&gtrobert</name></foo></p>.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>&amp;ltfoo name=bobby&gt;&amp;ltname&amp;gtrobert&lt;/name&gt;&l
+t;/foo&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</root>
after: &ltfoo name=bobby>&ltname&gtrobert</name></foo></p>.

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In reply to Re^2: Kindly suggest a good starting point for XML Parsing. by choroba
in thread Kindly suggest a good starting point for XML Parsing. by perl514

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