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escaping bad text in XML with Perl

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nleco

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Dec 10, 2003
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I have text inside a perl statment, it goes something like this.

<title>DVD&plusmn;R/RW</title>

I wanted to know if there is a Perl module that will somehow change &plusmn; to its proper entity so that it will not give me a bad XML parse error. I've looked at XML::Clean, but it doesnt seem to do what i want.

i thought about subsituting &plusmn; to &#177; wherever there was text, but this seems expensive. and if there are new entities i find, i have to add them.

thank you.
 
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