Firstly, I've seen a similiar thread to what I'm going to ask from back in April 2002, but there was no resolution to the problem: XML::LibXML Failed Test

In my case, I'm trying to install XML::LibXML/1.53, from CPAN on a system that has libxml2/2.4.30, but it fails thus: 

t/08findnodes....dubious                                              
+       
        Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
DIED. FAILED tests 6-18
        Failed 13/18 tests, 27.78% okay
[snipped ok results]
Failed Test     Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/08findnodes.t    0    11    18   13  72.22%  6-18

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This is starting to cause me pain, and I was curious to know whether this is a common gotcha, or whether the pixie dust just isn't with me today.

Irrespective of these problems, is XML::LibXML any good? Ultimately, I'm intending to use an XSLT engine to do transformations, and I was under the (misguideed?) impression that XML::LibXSLT is the best choice? I'd appreciate opinions that support this or guide me to a better XSLT engine (the XML files are fairly trivial, size wise)

Many thanks,
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RatArsed

In reply to Problems installing XML::LibXML by RatArsed

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