in reply to Funny characters in nodes

Leave them. And decode any encoded entites you find. People will not be searching for encoding strings, they'll be searching for raw "real" text. The XML representation of the nodes' content (and any errors arising therefrom) should be irrelevant.

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Re^2: Funny characters in nodes
by dmitri (Priest) on Jul 08, 2007 at 22:15 UTC
    I will obviously decode encoded entities -- my problem is that the standard XML libraries I have choke on those characters. I'd hate to write my own XML parser...
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      Wrap the error in eval?

      Steve
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        I can wrap the error, but I still need the XML to be parsed, though...
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