Heydly ho.

I'm using XML::Simple to parse some XML data, and it works so fine on my Mac Panther OSX with XML::Simple 2.11. When I upload the same file however onto a Linux Red Hat ES box with XML::Simple 2.12, it doesn't parse the data at all.

I am wondering if there is a difference in the version or something? do I have to downgrade? The XML::Parser on the Linux Red Hat ES box works fine with all the other xml I have thrown at it do far, but this one just returns nothing.

Here is the xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<rss version="2.0"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:photo="http://www.pheed.com/pheed/"
>
  <channel>
    <title>title</title>
    <description>desc</description>
    <language>en-us</language> 
    <lastBuildDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2004 07:31:15 GMT</lastBuildDate>
    <image> 
      <url>url</url>
      <link>link</link>
    </image>    
    <item>
      <title>Titel</title>
        <link>link</link>
    <guid isPermaLink="false">5001811502</guid>
        <description></description>
    <photo:imgsrc>imgsrc</photo:imgsrc>
    <photo:thumbnail>thumbnail</photo:thumbnail>
    <dc:creator>creator</dc:creator>
    <dc:rights>rights</dc:rights>
    <dc:subject>subject</dc:subject>
</item>

</rss>

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And the code:

my $xml = eval { XMLin($xml_results) } or die(@$);
print Dumper($xml);

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On one machine this formats a nice refrence to the xml object. On the other it outputs "undef"

Any ideas? or should I just scrap XML::Simple?

In reply to XML::Simple version difference? by Anonymous Monk

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