Hola Senors y Senioritas: Does anyone know why XML::Twig would dump core when perl (perl v5.8.0 on sun4-solaris) is done executing a program? Their are two odd things about this anomaly: 1) The program that is using the module (code included below) seems to be working perfectly 99% of the time with data sources that are similar to the one that is failing (the failing XML source can be found at http://www.statenet.com/sama/BILLTEXT_20011025_0_N.xml). 2) The program actually gives correct output if STDOUT is autoflushed. However, after the program exits (I tested this by printing a line of text to STDERR just before the end of the code), it seems that perl dumps core. The perl source is listed below: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
(my $prog = $0) =~ s-.*/--;
my $usage = "USAGE: $prog xml_file";

@ARGV == 1 or die "$usage\n";

# $xml_file = http://www.statenet.com/sama/BILLTEXT_20011025_0_N.xml

my ($xml_file) = shift;
unless (-f "$xml_file" ) {
   die "$prog: FATAL: File: $xml_file does not exist\n";
}

use DBI;

use XML::Twig;

my $twig = XML::Twig->new(
                             pretty_print => 'indented',
                             load_DTD => 1,
                         );        
unless ( $twig->safe_parsefile($xml_file) ) {
    die "$prog: FATAL: Failed parse of $xml_file...\n";
}

my $root = $twig->root();

my $billtext = $root->children('billtext');
my $version_date_xml = $billtext->first_child('billtext_version_date')
+;
my $version_date = $version_date_xml->text;
my $verseq = parse XML::Twig::Elt("<billtext_version_sequence>0</billt
+ext_version_sequence>");
$verseq->paste(after => $version_date_xml);

$twig->flush(Update_DTD => 1);

# print(STDERR "Hey, look, I still haven't dumped core!!!\n");

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In reply to XML::Twig dumping core on valid XML... by sama

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