"Unencoded"? XML::Simple doesn't handle such broken XML. 

$ perl -MXML::Simple -e'XMLin("<root><foo>\xE9</foo></root>");'
Entity: line 1: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
Bytes: 0xE9 0x3C 0x2F 0x66
<root><foo>�</foo></root>
           ^

Just as I don't use a chainsaw to trim my toenails, I use the XML tool that suits my purpose.

I didn't not try to get you to use XML::LibXML. I was just contradicting obviously incorrect information.

In reply to Re^9: Is there any XML reader like this? (XML::Simple beats LibXML hands down in the speed stakes!) by ikegami
in thread Is there any XML reader like this? by ashok.g

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