I wondered about this too.

Bill Moseley wrote on 8/2/04 11:42 AM:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 01:29:34AM -0700, Jonas Wolf wrote:
> 
>>THanks for the tip, I'll try to make use of that. On a different note, I 
>>realised I should be using encode_entities_numeric instead, because 
>>representations like " seem to annoy libxml2 as well...
> 
> 
> I think we would have heard about that by now if that were true.
> 


Here's Jonas's original email:

Jonas Wolf wrote on 7/28/04 11:09 AM:

 > I use the prog option to generate XML documents to be indexed, using the
 > XML2 parser. To make sure that the XML2 parser does not break, I do
 > HTML::Entities::encode_entities on the text that i enclose in xml tags.


I wonder if instead the encode_entities is having the opposite effect. 
Have you tried NOT using encode_entities at all to see what happens?

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