in reply to emdash problems with XML::Simple

What parser is your XML::Simple using? Try using XML::Parser instead. 
local $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER = 'XML::Parser';

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Re^2: emdash problems with XML::Simple
by nglenn (Beadle) on Aug 26, 2010 at 19:58 UTC

    Wow! That got rid of my longtime error. I never would have thought of that in a million years. I thought XML::Simple always used XML::Parser.

    It still does something I don't expect thought... 'table'=>undef is in the Dumper printout. Why isn't it reading it properly?

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      "XML::Simple will default to using a SAX parser if one is available or XML::Parser if SAX is not available."

      You probably ended up using the PurePerl SAX parser which is/was buggy when it came to encodings. XML::Parser is by far the fastest existing backend for XML::Simple, according to my benchmarks a year ago.

      XML::Simple removes the root by default. 

      my $tree = 
    {
        table => {}
    
    };
$tree->{table} = 
        $xml->XMLin($fileName, 
            ForceArray => ['map'], KeyAttr => []
        )
    ->{table};

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      should be 
      my $tree = $xml->XMLin($fileName, 
   ForceArray => [qw( map )],
   KeyAttr    => {},
   KeepRoot   => 1,
);

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        Makes sense. Except, if Parser is so much better than SAX why is Simple still using SAX as a default...

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