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Decode HTML Entities found in XML

Demonstrates how to decode HTML entities found in XML.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Load an XML file containing the following:

# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
# <output>Franz&#xf6;sische</output>

my $xml = Chilkat2::Xml->new;
my $success = $xml->LoadXmlFile('qa_data/xml/hasHtmlEntity.xml');

# Get non-decoded content, then get decoded content.

# Result is Franz&#xf6;sische
print $xml->Content, "\n";

# Result is Französische
my $strDecoded = $xml->DecodeEntities($xml->Content);
print $strDecoded, "\n";