note OeufMayo <p>You need to add the encoding used in the document at the start of it: <code><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?></code>. The entities are then converted to the proper numerical entities.</p> <p>You may also want to use [mirod]'s [cpan://XML::Twig], which, in the latest version (3.0) is able to keep the original encoding. And besides this cool feature, I find Twig easier to use than DOM to process XML docs. Here's what your code would look like with Twig: <code> #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use XML::Twig 3.0; my $parser = new XML::Twig( keep_encoding => 1 ); my $xmlstring=<<"XMLEND"; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <ACTION> <INPUT LABEL="Radio Button"/> <INPUT LABEL="été"/> <RADIO ID="List"> éééàààùùù </RADIO> </ACTION> XMLEND $parser->parse($xmlstring); $parser->print; </code> <p>Hope this helps!</p> <p><small><strong>update:</strong> version 3.0 of XML::Twig can be found [http://www.xmltwig.cx/xmltwig/|here]</p> <kbd>-- <br> my $<a href="/index.pl?node=OeufMayo&lastnode_id=1072">OeufMayo</a> = new PerlMonger::Paris({http => '<a href="http://paris.mongueurs.net">paris.mongueurs.net</a>'});</kbd> 94708 94708