Hi monks,

I have a problem getting XML::Parser to read a file of mine. I've stripped it down to a ridiculously bare-bones case:

use XML::Parser;

sub handler_start() { print $_[1], "\n"; }

my $parser = new XML::Parser();

$parser->setHandlers(
    Start    => \&handler_start
    );

$parser->parsefile('test.xml');

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And this is the content of the test.xml file:

<article id="1">
<tester>TEST</tester>
</article>

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Now, I can get XML::Parser to work on other snippets, but not this one. Is that XML malformed in some way I didn't realize? I am working on Windows (XP) and I get the error box "Perl Command Line Interpreter has encountered a problem and needs to close."

Can anybody see the problem?

In reply to XML::Parser Weirdness by Anonymous Monk

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