in reply to XML::Twig and HTML Entities

maybe I'm missing something but the output looks exactly as I would expect... Can you post an example of what you'd prefer XML::Twig to output?

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Re^2: XML::Twig and HTML Entities
by blitzkrieg (Initiate) on Nov 12, 2004 at 20:01 UTC
    Here's what the code snippet actually generates: 
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<log>&amp;lt;pre&gt;won't escape properly - uggh!&amp;lt;/pre&gt;</log
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    Here's what I desire? 
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<log>&lt;pre&gt;won't escape properly - uggh!&lt;/pre&gt;</log>

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    Notice that it does an encode_entities() on the '&' in both of the '&lt;' series. I either want XML::Twig to encode everything or nothing but not a partial encode.
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      Why not? Without an opening '<' a '>' is a normal char and doesn't need to encode().
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        Update:

        It turns out in the code excerpt I wrote to demonstrate my problem, the problem is easily solved by setting 'keep_encoding => 1' when the Twig is created.

        In the actual code that is trying to do this same thing, 'keep_encoding => 1' is set but the output behaves like it is not set. And I get the behavior described in the original message. Maybe this additional information will ring a bell with someone.

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