Re: Xerces-P AttributeList problem

Tut tut - replying to oneself ;-)


Bob Arthur wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently compiled Xerces-C 2.3.0-1, and XML-Xerces-2.3.0-4.  I'm
> using Debian woody. (g++ version 3.0.4)

Forgot to mention that I'm using perl 5.6.1.

> All was going well, but I'm having trouble with AttributeList_getValue
> when validating against a Schema - trouble with AttributeList->to_hash():
> 
> No matching function for overloaded 'AttributeList_getValue' at
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1/XML/Xerces.pm line 261.
> 
> Searching on Google, I've seen other messages on this group regarding
> this issue, but no resolution.  I was wondering if more was known about it.
[snip]

My searching wasn't deep enough - a similar problem in a thread "Problem 
Building Xerces-XML on Linux with Perl 5.6.1" prompted me to add the line:

my $tmp = $self->getName();

to the AttributeList->to_hash method.  Thus:

package XML::Xerces::AttributeList;
sub to_hash {
   my $self = shift;
   my %hash;
   for (my $i=0;$i<$self->getLength();$i++) {
     my $tmp = $self->getName($i);
     $hash{$self->getName($i)} = $self->getValue($i)
   }
   return %hash;
}

I made this change to my local copy of Xerces.pm after running "make", 
but before "make install" and lo - all is well!

I hope this will help others who may be in the same spot.  Meanwhile, 
thanks to Eric and Jason for the idea :-)

All the best,

Bob.