Re^2: creating an XML string

Nasty :-)

It won't work if the argument to encode() is in LATIN-1, and your XML file is UTF-8.

update:... hmmmmmm it appears that the "most reasonable" approach would be simply

sub encode {
  my $arg = shift;
  $arg =~ s/&/&amp;/g
  $arg =~ s/</&lt;/g;
  $arg;
}
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and do the character encoding seperately using Encode, or let the filehandle figure it out.

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Re^3: creating an XML string by PreferredUserName (Pilgrim) on Dec 30, 2004 at 19:14 UTC
Well, they don't call it "quick and dirty" because it's elegant and complete.	[reply]