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List:       perl-xml
Subject:    RE: :Simple - ignore HTML?
From:       Grant McLean <grantm () web ! co ! nz>
Date:       2001-03-19 5:13:06
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From: Morbus Iff [mailto:morbus@disobey.com]
> 
> I'm parsing a large number of XML documents, and very 
> infrequently, I run across some unencoded HTML within 
> an XML tag, like 
> "<description><b>this is 
> bold</b></description>".

Can I assume that:
1. <description> is one of your XML tags and
2. a <description> tag normally has plain text content but
3. some of your <description> tags contain HTML

If this is the case, I'm not sure how you expect XML::Simple
to know which tags it should parse as tags and which tags
it should parse as text.  Even if you switched to XML::Parser
you would have the same issue.

One approach you could take is to write a script to pre-process
your XML files and escape the contents of all <description> tags.
XML::Twig would be an excellent choice of module for this 
purpose.

Regards
Grant

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