The respective piece of code that populates @Encoding_Path looks like 

if ($have_File_Spec) {
  @Encoding_Path = (grep(-d $_,
                         map(File::Spec->catdir($_, qw(XML Parser Enco
+dings)),
                             @INC)),
                    File::Spec->curdir);
}
else {
  @Encoding_Path = (grep(-d $_, map($_ . '/XML/Parser/Encodings', @INC
+)), '.');
}

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so it should work if you put the file in "the current directory", or in one of the @INC dirs with /XML/Parser/Encodings appended. If you try '.', note that if this a CGI script, the current directory may not be what you think it is... (in case of doubt, chdir()).

Alternatively, I think you can explicitly call XML::Parser::Expat::load_encoding(ENCODING) and specify an absolute path to the file as ENCODING.  From Expat.pm: 

=item XML::Parser::Expat::load_encoding(ENCODING)

Load an external encoding. ENCODING is either the name of an encoding 
+or
the name of a file. The basename is converted to lowercase and a '.enc
+'
extension is appended unless there's one already there. Then, unless
it's an absolute pathname (i.e. begins with '/'), the first file by th
+at
name discovered in the @Encoding_Path path list is used.

(...) The only reason users should use this function is to
explicitly load an encoding not contained in the @Encoding_Path list.

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In reply to Re^4: Error with .xml file processing in XML::Simple by almut
in thread Error with .xml file processing in XML::Simple by Anonymous Monk

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