All,

I'm having the stupidest problem in the world. I can't get XML::Twig to work. Really, it is XML::Parser, but via twig. Anyways, here is my xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<test>word</test>
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That's it.

Here is my script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use XML::Twig;

my $fileLocation = "test.xml";

open(SOURCE, "< $fileLocation") or die "Couldn't open $fileLocation fo
+r reading: $!\n";

my $twig = new XML::Twig;

$twig->parse($fileLocation);
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And here is my error:

syntax error at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.
+pm line 187
at ./test.pl line 14
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For the life of me, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've used twig in the past and never had this problem. I thought this might be a perl bug, but I've tried it on both my Mac and an Ubuntu box. No luck!

Love,
Eric

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