Previously I had used (long, long time ago) XML::Twig for parsing XML. Or XML::Simple.

Now I read that XML::Simple shouldn't be used in new code and so I wanted to try the named alternative XML::LibXML.

But I already failed with the simplest code: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::LibXML;

my $doc = XML::LibXML->load_xml(
    location => shift,
    validation => 0,
);
print "Done\n";

use Data::Dumper;

print Dumper $doc;

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When I leave out the DOCTYPE, it seems to parse, but as soon as I have 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

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my script stops with: 

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd:1: parser error : Co
+ntent error in the external subset
HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error

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I wouldn't want to remove the doctype, so I'm wondering what could be wrong here. And is there a way to make the parser NOT go out and retrieve the DTD?

s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{})*;#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(|?*{%
+.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e

In reply to XML::LibXML complains by Skeeve

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