bug in HTML::Element ?

Kingpin (mthurn@fandago.read.tasc.com)
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 18:02:24 -0400 

I have perl 5.004_04 on Solaris 2.5.1
HTML::Element version 1.37

When I create a new <A> element, ampersands in its href URL get
changed to &amp;

This is bad, of course the value of the HREF should not be changed!

Is there a new version of HTML::Element?  Or, is there a new module
which replaces HTML::Element?  (I can't figure out where HTML::Element
came from in the first place!)

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use HTML::Element;
my $a = new HTML::Element('a','href'=>'http://ouch.com/cgi-bin/program?a=a&b=b&c=c');
print $a->as_HTML;
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The result is:

<A HREF="http://ouch.com/cgi-bin/program?a=a&amp;b=b&amp;c=c"></A>

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