XML::Atom::Util - Utility functions

    use XML::Atom::Util qw( iso2dt );
    my $dt = iso2dt($entry->issued);

Transforms the ISO-8601 date $iso into a DateTime object and returns the DateTime object.

Encodes characters with special meaning in XML into entities and returns the encoded string.

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