Venerable monks!

I have collection of spanish-language html-files that I want to convert into a plucker document.

But before I can do that I need to get rid of some crap that the files contain, so I parse them, extract the things I want and create a new html-file containing just the extracted bits.

The files I start with are utf8-encoded and claim (in the DOCTYPE) to be xhtml, but they don't validate (missing closing tags - oh well) so I use HMTL::TreeBuilder::XPath for parsing.

Now the thing is that the source-documents do not use any html-entities but contain the spanish special characters as (2 bytes) utf-characters. And this is where I have a problem.

Here my code (which works apart from the problem below): 


use strict;

use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new;
$tree->parse_file("in.html");

my ($tit) = $tree->findnodes(q{/html//h1[@class='title']});
my ($sub) = $tree->findnodes(q{/html//div[@class='submitted']});
my ($aut) = $tree->findnodes(q{/html//div[@class='autor']});
my ($art) = $tree->findnodes(q{/html//div[@class='content clear-block'
+]});
my ($nav) = $tree->findnodes(q{/html//div[@class='book-navigation']});

$nav->detach;

my (@childs, undef, undef) = $art->content_list;

open my $fh, ">", "out.html" or die $!;

print $fh "<html><body>"
          .   join("\n", map { $_->as_HTML } ($tit, $sub, $aut, $art) 
+)
          .   "</body></html>";

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What happens now is that e.g. the spanish character ú that is encoded as hex c3ba in the source document gets transformed into &Atilde;&ordm; (i.e. ú) in the output - and that is wrong...

Does someone have an idea on how to fix this?

Many thanks!

In reply to transforming html by morgon

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