--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+use strict;
+use XML::Simple;
+use IO::File;
+use Data::Dumper;
+
+my $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?><xml foo="a" foo_a=" a" foo_a_=" a " fooa_="a ">truæ</xml>';
+
+my $xml_file = shift @ARGV;
+
+if ($xml_file) {
+ my $fh = new IO::File($xml_file) || die "can't open $xml_file: $!";
+ $xml = XMLin($fh);
+} else {
+ $xml = XMLin($xml);
+}
+
+print Dumper($xml),"\n";
+