Xml::encoding, built as a subclass of xml::parser, parses encoding map xml files. included in the package is the compile_encoding script that compiles these to the binary form used by xml::parser in order to parse scripts in the given encoding. also included is a script that generates encoding map xml files from the type of mapping files obtained at ftp://ftp.unicode.org/public/mappings.

xml::encoding comes with a set of encoding maps installed in the /usr/share/libxml-encoding-perl directory. these are used when building the libxml-parser-perl package.