I've got perl v5.6.1 built for i686-linux, it's on slackware. I'm trying to install XML::DOM, which depends on XML::Parser::PerlSAX, which is in lib-xml.

I'm getting an error with test 11 of stream.h (in PerlSAX).

I'm thinking this may be an encoding thing i just don't understand, but here's what i think it is choking on, and my question would be why it's written this way, or why does my setup not do it properly.

The test:

print (($string eq $expected) ? "ok 11\n" : "not ok 11\n");

The $string

$string = $parser->parse(Source => { Encoding => 'ISO-8859-1',
                                     String => <<"EOF;" } );
<!DOCTYPE foo
  [
    <!NOTATION bar PUBLIC "qrs">
    <!ENTITY zinger PUBLIC "xyz" "abc" NDATA bar>
    <!ENTITY fran "fran-def">
    <!ENTITY zoe  "zoe.ent">
   ]>
<foo>
  First line in foo
  <boom>Fran is &fran; and Zoe is &zoe;</boom>
  <bar id="jack" stomp="jill">
  <?line-noise *&*&^&<< ?>
    1st line in bar
    <blah> 2nd line in bar </blah>
    3rd line in bar <!-- Isn't this a doozy -->
  </bar>
  <zap ref="zing" />
  This, '\240', would be a bad character in UTF-8.
</foo>
EOF;
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produces:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
  First line in foo
  <boom>Fran is fran-def and Zoe is zoe.ent</boom>
  <bar id="jack" stomp="jill">
  <?line-noise *&*&^&<< ?>
    1st line in bar
    <blah> 2nd line in bar </blah>
    3rd line in bar <!--  Isn't this a doozy  -->
  </bar>
  <zap fubar="1" ref="zing"></zap>
  This, 'Â ', would be a bad character in UTF-8.
</foo>
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The $expected

$expected = <<"EOF;";
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
  First line in foo
  <boom>Fran is fran-def and Zoe is zoe.ent</boom>
  <bar id="jack" stomp="jill">
  <?line-noise *&*&^&<< ?>
    1st line in bar
    <blah> 2nd line in bar </blah>
    3rd line in bar <!--  Isn't this a doozy  -->
  </bar>
  <zap fubar="1" ref="zing"></zap>
  This, '\302\240', would be a bad character in UTF-8.
</foo>
EOF;
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produces:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>
  First line in foo
  <boom>Fran is fran-def and Zoe is zoe.ent</boom>
  <bar id="jack" stomp="jill">
  <?line-noise *&*&^&<< ?>
    1st line in bar
    <blah> 2nd line in bar </blah>
    3rd line in bar <!--  Isn't this a doozy  -->
  </bar>
  <zap fubar="1" ref="zing"></zap>
  This, 'ÃÂ ', would be a bad character in UTF-8.
</foo>
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the extra character in the 2nd This would be a bad character line is coded in... I'm confused to why it's there.