Hi All,

I am relatively new to XML so please excuse me if this
question sounds rather trivial.

I recently wrote an XML to Folio flat file converter (using
Perl) in which entities were converted to single characters
using an %ent2char hash, where entities were mapped to the
desired ISO-Lat 1 character.

During testing, every time the program encountered an entity
foreign to its knowledge, I had to look up the characer
chart and add to the %ent2char associative array. I found
this rather troublesome and somewhat inefficient.

Was wondering if anyone knew of a Perl module where "common"
entities, such as those representing ISO-Lat 1 characters,
were listed and mapped to single characters and called upon
via methods of the module?

That'll make my job much easier :).

Thanks everyone.
Mk