Re: XML::Twig::flush() and html/xml entities

That's because you're using text to get the content of the element. Form the docs:

Return a string consisting of all the PCDATA and CDATA in an element, without any tags. The text is not XML-escaped: base entities such as & and < are not escaped.

What you are looking for is xml_text (Return the text of the element, encoded, without any tag.) or xml_string (returns the string for the entire element, excluding the element's tags (but nested element tags are present).

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Re^2: XML::Twig::flush() and html/xml entities by mandarin (Hermit) on Oct 05, 2006 at 13:55 UTC
I changed the code in line 28 to both `my $elt_txt = $elt->xml_text;` [download] and `my $elt_txt = $elt->xml_string;` [download] (and left anything else alone) but neither did work out, I still get the convertet ampersand. Do I have to play around with the output_filter, too? I must admit that I didn't quite understand how that works. Martin update: Even text in tags never touched by the `section` function is undergoing changes.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: XML::Twig::flush() and html/xml entities by mirod (Canon) on Oct 05, 2006 at 15:17 UTC
Ooops! That will teach me to test the code before answering. Is there any reason why you use the `keep_encoding` option? Without it it works fine, with it, indeed the & is not escaped in the output. You should only use this option if you are dealing with non-utf8 encodings, and want all the processing to be done in the original encoding, which doesn't seem to be your case.	[reply]