* Webley Silvernail wrote:
>I have some XHTML in utf-8 that includes the named character reference
>for non-breaking spaces.
(That is a numeric, not a named, character reference.)
>> Yes, sorry I used the wrong term.
>The output is replacing the with a non-printable character that is
>rendered in various agents as boxes or question marks enclosed in diamonds.
(That like means you've not specified the character encoding properly.)
>I've tried adding an explicit decode/encode step and using HTML::Entities, but
>I've had no luck. Basically, I just want TreeBuilder to ignore the
>references and pass them through.
I believe you are looking for the $element->as_HTML($entities) parameter
(see `perldoc HTML::Element` for details; set the parameter to a value
that includes all the characters you want to be escaped in the output).
>> Thanks for pointing this out....this is what I needed. It took me a while to
>>figure out what to specify for $entities, but '\xa0' worked in the end.
>>
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