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Your XML should be like this:

<function name="showImage">
    <data>A random picture</data>
    <argument><![CDATA[<img src="test.jpg">]]></argument>
    <argument>0</argument>
</function>
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Now the perl code:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $ref = XMLin(\*DATA);
print Dumper $ref;

__DATA__
<function name="showImage">
    <data>A random picture</data>
    <argument><![CDATA[<img src="test.jpg">]]></argument>
    <argument>0</argument>
</function>
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The results:

$VAR1 = {
          'argument' => [
                        '<img src="test.jpg">',
                        '0'
                      ],
          'name' => 'showImage',
          'data' => 'A random picture'
        };
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You can read more about XML specs here or searching in Google.

Update:If you use XML::Simple to create the XML file, it will automagically convert ">" or "<" to > and <.

Igor S. Lopes - izut
surrender to perl. your code, your rules.

In reply to Re: Accessing mixed content in XML by izut
in thread Accessing mixed content in XML by anthski

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