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What's the error message? Without it I can only guess...

... that maybe the inverted question mark is encoded in extended-ascii (ISO-8859-1). Since you don't specify an encoding in the XML string, it is assumed to be in UTF-8, and you should get an "invalid character" or such error.

If in your real code the string is hard-coded in the program file, then you need to use utf8;.

If you get the data from a file, you need to either add an XML declaration specifying the encoding, pre-process the data to convert it to utf-8 or use the ProtocolEncoding option when you create the XML::Parser object (I would advise against this last solution though, better to keep the info about the encoding of the data with the data than in the code).

In reply to Re: XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol by mirod
in thread XML::Parser does not parse the Symbol by gopalr

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