On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:49:54AM -0700, Peter Karman wrote:
>  > 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?

Well, if the text has any of the standard five internal entities then
you will need to escape them.  (Well, at least <, > and & have to be
escaped.)

You have to be a little careful with HTML::Entities as it can create
named entities that are valid in HTML but would need to be specified
in the DTD to be valid XML  (I think &copy; is an example).

$ perl -MHTML::Entities -le 'print encode_entities("<>foo&bar©")'
&lt;&gt;foo&amp;bar&copy;

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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org