oh wait, that isn't right. that'll encode everything like a-z0-9, etc.

better to explicitly name the chars you want encoded, though. someone 
with a clearer head than me this a.m. could list the chars that are 
truly unsafe for libxml2. if, as Keith says, 9, 10 and 13 are legit, 
than perhaps this would work better:

my $unsafe;
$unsafe .= chr for (0 .. 8, 11, 12, 14 .. 32);
$contents = "<xml>\n" .
HTML::Entities::encode_entities($contents,$unsafe) .
"\n</xml>";

Peter Karman wrote on 7/30/04 10:16 AM:


> my @unsafe = 0 .. 32;	# or whatever ascii you DON'T want encoded
> my $unsafe;
> $unsafe .= chr for @unsafe;
> 
> $contents = "<xml>\n" . HTML::Entities::encode_entities($contents, 
> "[^$unsafe]") .
> "\n</xml>";
> 


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