Thanks for taking your time to hear to my concern.

I've been recently playing with some XSLT for various templating and other reasons. I have also spent some time on the web trying to learn about the beast and also how it is used in Perl. Unfortunately, I couldn't find plenty good information on the use of the XML::XSLT perl module. Not even in the native perldoc! ;/.

Anyhow, could you please explain me what is wrong with this code? This is the real deal and only used for testing purposes while I'm still learning how to use XML::XSLT. So, in this example, I'm first parsing an XML 'string' (saved in a scalar variable), which works just fine. Next, I'm trying to parse an XSL file 'Data/verysimple.xsl' that contains the exact same XSL 'string'. However, this second time the parser reports this error (this is the script's output actually): 
XSL string parsed!
Error while parsing: 
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 4, byte 4 at /Citygu
+ides/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/sun4-solaris/XML/Parser.pm line 
+185

Data/verysimple.xml at /export/home/vlad/scratch/LIB/XML/XSLT.pm line 
+1150.

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Here's the actual code: 
use XML::XSLT;

my $simple_xsl = qq~<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
~;

my $source = new XML::XSLT($simple_xsl);
print "XSL string parsed!\n";

my $source1 = new XML::XSLT('Data/verysimple.xml');

print "XSL file parsed!\n";

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Update: Thanks for all your comments. In fact all of the comments are correct. In this particular instance, I indeed failed to provide proper file name. Nontheless, the module couldn't parse any other xml file (actual deal) that I had to parse. Also, it had very poor error reporting (say, if I made a syntax error in my XML at line 100 or so, it would still continue saying that the error is at line 1 ;/). I've now installed libxml2 and libxsml libraries and also trying to install XML::LibXML and XML::LibXSLT as per your comments. I'm sincerely appreciative of your support! :-)

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In reply to XSLT doesn't understand me? by vladb

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