Re: Decode XML &#xxxx; entities

You seem to confuse HTML entities with URI escaping. You should use HTML::Entities, not URI::Escape. Also, a HTML entities never looks like &#00FC; It's hexadecimal, so there must be an "x" in between, or keep it decimal. With HTML::Entities I get the expected result:

use HTML::Entities qw(decode_entities);
use Devel::Peek;
Dump decode_entities "&#x00FC;";
Dump decode_entities "&#x20ac;";
__END__

SV = PV(0x5060c8) at 0x5051e8
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (TEMP,POK,pPOK)
  PV = 0x510920 "\374"\0
  CUR = 1
  LEN = 16
SV = PV(0x5060c8) at 0x5051e8
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (TEMP,POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x510920 "\342\202\254"\0 [UTF8 "\x{20ac}"]
  CUR = 3
  LEN = 16
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Note that the first result does not have the utf-8 flag on, but for Perl this does not matter if a codepoint < 256 is internally encoded as latin1 or utf8.

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Re^2: Decode XML &#xxxx; entities by saintmike (Vicar) on Dec 04, 2007 at 21:07 UTC
You seem to confuse HTML entities with URI escaping. Nope, I was just giving an example of a similarily trivial transformation that's covered by a CPAN module. Also, a HTML entities never looks like &#00FC; It's hexadecimal, so there must be an "x" in between, or keep it decimal. Thanks, corrected in my original post. With HTML::Entities I get the expected result: Looks pretty good!	[reply]