Hello, Despite extensive research on the internet into previous work that has been done on this topic I could not find any useful bit of information. So I hope someone here will be able to help me out.

I am trying to parse and XML file that is shift-jis encoded using XML::Twig. From what I gather, XML::Twig can parse shift-jis assuming the XML is well formed. However, I haven't been able to get it to do that yet. So far I've done the following: in my XML::Parser directory under Parser/Encoding I set my shift-jis encoding file to be x-sjis-unicode.enc (renamed the file to shift-jis.enc).

When I try to parse my XMl file I get the following error:

unknown encoding at line 1, column 30, byte 30 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 185

The first few lines of my XML file look as follows (note the <RetrunString> tag should contain shift-jis characters):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="shift-jis" ?> 
<!DOCTYPE AdminRequest (View Source for full doctype...)> <AdminReques
+t>
<Header>
  <ReturnCode>0</ReturnCode> 
  <ReturnString></ReturnString> 
  </Header>

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Can you please let me know what I am doing wrong or how I can go about parsing shift-jis? If you can point me to examples that'd be appreciated. Thanks.

In reply to Parsing shift-jis XML with XML::TWIG by jabarin

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