Hi, I have a problem in reading an XML file that I want to include in a __DATA__ section. My first try was using the XML in the __DATA__ section as follows: my $cr = XMLin( *DATA ); After reading the XML::Simple docs, I saw it required an IO::Handle object, so I tried this: 
my $xmldata = IO::Handle->new->fdopen(fileno(DATA),'r');
# print $xmldata->getline();
my $cr = XMLin( $xmldata );

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which results in the error:

Unable to recognise encoding of this document at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/XML/SAX/PurePerl/EncodingDetect.pm line 96. Document requires an element Ln: 1, Col: 0

Which leads me to believe the $xmldata IO::Handle doesn't return any lines, however, If I uncomment the getline() line from the code above it prints a line, starting at character 12199 of my XML file.

I got 2 questions about this:

How can I read an XML file from a __DATA__ section (preferably with XML::Simple) ?

What magic happens with the DATA filehandle? Is some predefined number of characters read in from it at compilation time?

UPDATE: never mind question number 1, this solves my problem: 

my $cr = XMLin( do { local $/ ; <DATA> } );

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I'm still interested in what happend though.

In reply to __DATA__ in XML::Simple and/or IO::Handle by eXile

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