Hello Monks,

I'm trying to get XML::SAX off the ground, but I'm not doing so well.
I'm doing:

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use XML::SAX::ParserFactory; # dynamically load an available parser, o
+r PurePerl if nothing else

my $userid = "alex";
my $dataset = "hello2.xml";
my $file = "/usr/home/$userid/$dataset";

my $handler = SAXHandler->new();
my $parser = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->parser( Handler => $handler);
$parser->parse_uri($file);

package SAXHandler;

sub new {
   my $type = shift;
   return bless {}, $type;
}

sub start_document {
   my ($self, $element) = @_;
   print "Starting document...\n";
}

sub start_element {
   my ($self, $element) = @_;
   print "Starting element $element->{Name}\n";
}

sub end_element {
   my ($self, $element) = @_;
   print "Ending element $element->{Name}\n";
}

sub characters {
   my ($self, $characters) = @_;
   print "characters: $characters->{Data}\n";
}

1;
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With hello2.xml looking like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
   <!DOCTYPE greeting [
    <!ELEMENT greeting (#PCDATA)>
   ]>
   <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
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This is outputting the error:

Name contains invalid start character: '<'
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Now, I know that that is UTF8 for the "<" character. But, XML needs to start with this character. I thought mabye it was the way I was calling parse_uri, so I tried opening a file handle and using parse_file. I tried pulling the whole file into a string and doing parse_string. I'm stumped.

Thanks,
Alex

P.S.- Are there any other pure-perl XML parsers out there? XML::SAX loads a billion modules and I just want something simple that doesn't require expat C compilation. Everything seems to rely on expat. I need portability.

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