For testing, I'm using a form to POST XML to a CGI handler. While developing this, I ran into some problems. It seems that use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser' is incompatible with XML::Parser. Or maybe I'm making a mistake.

Try this code:

use XML::Parser;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';

my $p1 = new XML::Parser(Style => 'Debug');
$p1->parse('<foo id="hi">Hello world</foo>');
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Although the parse seems to go fine, CGI reports that a software error occured. Specifically, "Can't use string ("<foo id="hi">Hello World</foo>") as a symbol ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 456"

If you comment out the 'fatalsToBrowser' line, everything works fine. Is XML::Parser/expat throwing a die call even on a successful parse? Is the parse failing? Am I doing something dumb?