In the man page for XML::Parser (which is the module generating the error), there is a section titled ENCODINGS, which explains how to work with non-unicode data.

Part of the explanation mentions @XML::Parser::Expat::Encoding_Path, which is a list of one or more directories where encoding definitions are kept. You're likely to find a directory called "Encodings" under XML/Parser/ (wherever this module was installed on your system).

On the system I'm using at the moment (macosx, perl 5.8.6, XML::Parser version 2.34), that Encodings directory contains the follow shift-jis related encoding map files: 

x-sjis-cp932.enc
x-sjis-jdk117.enc
x-sjis-jisx0221.enc
x-sjis-unicode.enc

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If I take the xml snippet from the OP, and change the name of the encoding from "shift-jis" to "x-sjis-unicode", it does not generate an error.

Also, rather than altering the xml data file, if I get my xml object like this: 

my $parser = new XML::Parser(ProtocolEncoding=>"x-sjis-unicode");

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this encoding spec overrides the encoding named in the xml file, and it generates no error. (And of course, if I use the data as posted and do not set ProtocolEncoding for the parser object, I get the same error as the OP.)

I'm just guessing that the one I picked is "the right one". Good luck with that.

In reply to Re: Parsing shift-jis XML with XML::TWIG by graff
in thread Parsing shift-jis XML with XML::TWIG by jabarin

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