Re: Perl XML::Parser failing tests

Dave Wombat schrieb am 17.03.2010 um 11:59:58 (-0700):
> 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'>
> ]]>

Looks like a problem with parameter entities or conditional sections.

> 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".

Sounds familiar :-)

> 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?

The test suite runs fine for my installation, which is 2.36 for the Perl
module against libexpat 2.0.1 on Cygwin.

You might consider upgrading libexpat.

Or reporting a bug:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=XML-Parser

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

It's not totally safe, in my opinion, but if you can determine that only
parameter entities and/or conditional sections are a problem and you
know that you don't use these, then well, why not?

-- 
Michael Ludwig
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