I remember reading a post here that said about the best thing you could do for the perl community was writing module tests. So I've written some tests for XML::LibXML, mainly because I couldn't figure out how to make it do what I want. Does anyone around here know the module and can tell me if I misunderstood the documentation or if there are really bugs in the module? On my system, tests 6, 7, and 11 - 17 break, and I get a segfault with the last method call. I'm using 5.6.1 under Red Hat Linux 7.1.

Here are the tests: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Test::More tests => 18;

BEGIN { 
    use_ok ('XML::LibXML') 
};

my $doc = new XML::LibXML::Document;
ok (defined $doc, 'Document constructed');
ok ($doc->isa ('XML::LibXML::Document'), 'Document: correct object cla
+ss');

my $par = $doc->createElement ('Paragraph');
ok (defined $par, 'XML Element constructed via Document');
ok ($par->isa ('XML::LibXML::Element'), 'Element: correct object class
+');
is ($par->ownerDocument (), $doc, 'Element has correct owner');
#explicitly set owner document
$par->setOwnerDocument ($doc);
is ($par->ownerDocument (), $doc, 'Element has correct owner after exp
+licitly setting it');
#add text to Element
$par->appendText ('Some text');
is ($par->toString (), '<Paragraph>Some text</Paragraph>', 'Text added
+ to Element');

#construct Element from scratch
$par2 = new XML::LibXML::Element ('Paragraph');
ok (defined $par2, 'XML Element constructed from scratch');
ok ($par2->isa ('XML::LibXML::Element'), 'new Element: correct object 
+class');
#add text to Element
$par2->appendText ('Other text');
is ($par2->toString (), '<Paragraph>Other text</Paragraph>', 'Text add
+ed to Element before setting owner document');
#explicitly set owner document
$par2->setOwnerDocument ($doc);
is ($par2->ownerDocument (), $doc, 'Element has correct owner after ex
+plicitly setting it');
#add text to Element after setting owner document
$par2->appendText ('Other text');
is ($par2->toString (), '<Paragraph>Other text</Paragraph>', 'Text add
+ed to Element after setting owner document');

#add paragraph to document
$doc->appendChild ($par);
is ($doc->hasChildNodes (), 1, 'Element added to document');
is ($doc->toString (), '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Paragraph>Some text</Paragraph>', '$doc->toString () works OK');
#attempt with appendChild
eval {$doc->insertBefore ($par);};
is ($@, '', '$doc->insertBefore(): OK');
is ($doc->hasChildNodes (), 1, 'Element added to document with appendB
+efore');
#attempt to insert DocumentFragment into Document
eval {$doc->appendChild ($par->ownerDocument ());};
is ($@, '', 'insert Document Fragment: OK');

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Thanks for any feedback

pike

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