1. I will, as soon as possible, run Memtst86 to verify the hardware. I agree, this is worthwhile, but unlikely.

2. I expect my Perl is not the most up-to-date, (not a long way away, but possibly somewhat crusty). I can certainly investigate this. Similarly the module, although I did download the module last autumn, I do not know how frequently this is updated. Again, I can investigate this.

3. Whilst I may be able to try this on other OS's, it will not solve my problem. The target OS is XP, that is a constraint.

If this is a size issue, I could possibly chop the XML buffer into a number of smaller buffers by traditional means, then call the processing routine repeatedly each invocation processing say 1000 records.

I create the object with an xml->abc parameter. Is there a formal destructor or reset method for this object or do I need to create a new object for each inquiry? The documentation at CPAN does not show a destructor.

In reply to Re^2: XPath crashing by adrianxw
in thread XPath crashing by adrianxw

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