XML::Parser and numeric entities

[gam3]

Is there a way to keep XML::Parser from converting numeric entities into UTF8?

Or is there some other parser that will let me do this?

use strict;
use XML::Parser;

use vars qw($parser);

sub handle_start {
    my $self = shift;
    my $x = shift;
    print "<" . $x . '>' ;
}

sub handle_end {
    my $self = shift;
    my $x = shift;
    print "</" . $x . '>' ;
}

sub handle_char {
    my $self = shift;
    my $x = shift;
    print $x;
}

$parser = XML::Parser->new(
    Handlers => {
        Start => \&handle_start,
        End   => \&handle_end,
        Char  => \&handle_char
    }
);

$parser->parse(<<XML);
<start>&#8211;</start>
XML

I would like this program to output

<start>&#8211;</start>

not

<start>–</start>

[ikegami]

It simply decodes the entities. It doesn't then encode the character using UTF-8.

If you want all non-ASCII characters encoded, you can use:

use HTML::Entities qw( encode_entities_numeric );

sub handle_char {
    my $self = shift;
    my $x = shift;
    print encode_entities_numeric($x);
}

There's also a handler you can use instead of Char that receives the entities still encoded, but then you're not guaranteed to have all non-ASCII characters encoded.

[gam3]

Thank you for that information, I can use it to patch up my problem

However what I really want is for XML::Parser to NOT decode the numeric entities at all.