Simplexml parsing html in xml entity in hash

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Question for my dear PerlMonks, I have an xml file that I am parsing. One of the items in the xml is a 'content' value that has HTML. I am using SimpleXML to parse the file and XMLin like so:

  $xml= eval { $data->XMLin($webpage, forcearray => 1, suppressempty=>
+'') };
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when I dump the hash I am discovering that SimpleXML is parsing the HTML into the hash. This is not what I want. I want to just grab content inside of it. How do I do this? Thank you!

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Re: Simplexml parsing html in xml entity in hash by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 14, 2010 at 20:58 UTC
The element's value isn't HTML (or XHTML). `<?xml version="1.0"?> <root> <element> <p>Rock &amp; Roll</p> </element> </root>` [download] Rather, the element has XHTML children. `<?xml version="1.0"?> <root xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <element> <html:p>Rock & Roll</html:p> </element> </root>` [download] Faced with the latter, you'd normally just ask for the XML of the node (`->toString()` or some such). However, that won't work with XML::Simple because its parser is too lossy to handle typical XHTML.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Simplexml parsing html in xml entity in hash
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 14, 2010 at 20:58 UTC

The element's value isn't HTML (or XHTML).

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<element>
&lt;p&gt;Rock &amp;amp; Roll&lt;/p&gt;
</element>
</root>
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Rather, the element has XHTML children.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<element>
<html:p>Rock &amp; Roll</html:p>
</element>
</root>
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Faced with the latter, you'd normally just ask for the XML of the node (->toString() or some such). However, that won't work with XML::Simple because its parser is too lossy to handle typical XHTML.

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