Hi All- I am pretty much a beginner at Perl - lots of C, beginner at Perl. I have installed a few modules now, and written a few small programs that work .

I have been picking through the XML::Simple maze a bit. Wrote a couple of programs, began to wonder about other parsers. Even got, compiled and installed Expat and LibXML2. btw- this is a Mac, Perl 5.8.1, OS 10.3.7

Now, however, my install is confused. After trying Very Hard to read and do the right thing, its still a problem. Specifics on request. However, the XML::Simple tests now fail, with
Can't locate auto/XML/Parser/Expat/parse_strin.al'

Current everything..
# Package Version
# perl 5.8.1
# XML::Simple 2.14
# Storable 2.08
# XML::Parser 2.34
# XML::SAX 0.14
# XML::NamespaceSupport 1.09
# XML::Parser::Expat 2.34 (default parser)

I had tried to set the parser in ParserDetails.ini. Nothing worked. I went to an OS 10.4 machine with an untouched Perl, installed ONLY expat and Parser, not SAX at all, and it worked fine! So, I tried using ExtUtils modrm.pl to get rid of SAX entirely. That executed, but the next run of the makefile for XML::Simple 'detected' that SAx was installed! I made a new makefile, MakefileNoSax.PL, which just reversed the tests, preferring Parser first, ran it, but the tests fail. Installed SAX again, then Simple, the tests fail. You get the picture.

So now I am an unhappy state. Any suggestions on unwedging this mess? thanks in advance -Brian

In reply to XML::Simple Install hosed by Anonymous Monk

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