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in thread Parsing XML with XML::Simple

You hit the nail on the head. Everything I had worked just fine. The problem is that when I ran it through Firefox, I noticed that a few points throughout the articles, I have the author emails in the following format: 
First Last <this@that.com>

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That messed everything up and all my original code actually works. Is there a way around that using XML::Simple or XML::Twig so that I don't have to go through EVERY file and remove all instances of that?

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Re^3: Parsing XML with XML::Simple
by ferreira (Chaplain) on Dec 18, 2006 at 01:14 UTC
    The big issue is that if you have First Last <this@that.com> within your XML, you have bad XML. (It should be First Last &lt;this@that.com&gt;.) It is better to fix these files. I am not sure how you came into this, because XML::Simple usually escapes these things: 
    $ perl -MXML::Simple -e "print XMLout({ a => 'a <b>' })"
<opt a="a &lt;b&gt;" />

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    It could be the version you're using. The example above used 

    $ which_pm XML::Simple
XML::Simple       2.13    c:/tools/apache/Perl/site/lib/XML/Simple.pm

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      I am using XML::Simple version 2.14. I came into this because part of my company policy requires us, in our CVS headers to have that line as part of the template for documents/scripts/etc that go into CVS. Therefore, the XML files that are turned into articles all have those within the top 5 lines. Neither XML::Simple or XML::Twig handle this properly.
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        So you are suggesting that the XML::Simple file is post-processed in some fashion to insert extra information? The fix in that case is to pre-process the file at the other end to remove said extra information. Alternatively the code using XML::Simple to generate the file might be modified to insert the extra information in a compliant fashion. At this point it depends rather on your data flow and processes.

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        If you need the CSV info accessible to the programs you need to enclose the content in <[CDATA[...]]> to make sure the <, > and & characters do not break the XML, if you don't it would be best to use comments: 

        <!-- CVS
$Id: File_Find.pl,v 1.1 2006-12-17 19:25:03 eric Exp $
This That <this@that.com>
Desc: Test file
-->
<root>
...

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