Perl XML::Parser failing tests

While trying to install Perl's XML::Parser version 2.36 downloaded
from CPAN, the make test is failing.

This is a CentOS 5.4 system with an expat RPM installed.  The version
on that is 1.95.8-8.3.

The first test that fails is

t/decl............
syntax error at line 14, column 3, byte 214:
%ext;

<![%bar;[
==^
<!ATTLIST bar xyz (a|b|c) 'b'>
]]>

error in processing external entity reference at line 21, column 3, byte 3161:
   <!ELEMENT bar ANY>
   <!ATTLIST bar big CDATA 'This is a large string value to test
whether the declaration parser still works when the entity or
attribute default value may be broken into multiple calls to the
default handler.
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
'>
  ]>
==^
<foo/>
 at /root/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.36/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187

A similar problem was posted on this list, but the reply was of the
form, "yep, your parser is broken and can't handle conditionals".

Trying to move past that, is there a newer version of expat that
addresses this?  The README for XML::Parser claims 1.95.0 or newer
should work.  Or is there a newer version of XML::Parser that corrects
this?

Or can I safely ignore the errors, and just force install XML::Parser?
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