Hi Monks,

I am trying to install a module "XML::Diff" which I want to use to compare two XML files for any new additions, updates or deletes. Following is the error which I got while installing it. Can anyone help me on this?

Is there any other CPAN module which can be used to compare two XML files efficiently?
[root@rubicon prantikd]# perl -MCPAN -e "install XML::Diff"
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:27:04 GMT
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.821)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9719)
Fetching with LWP:
  http://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.68)
Going to read '/root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz'
......................................................................
+....

..DONE
Fetching with LWP:
  http://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Going to read '/root/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
  Database was generated on Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:27:04 GMT
...............
  New CPAN.pm version (v1.9402) available.
  [Currently running version is v1.94]
  You might want to try
    install CPAN
    reload cpan
  to both upgrade CPAN.pm and run the new version without leaving
  the current session.


.............................................................DONE
Fetching with LWP:
  http://cpan.pair.com/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Going to read '/root/.cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz'
......................................................................
+....

..DONE
Going to write /root/.cpan/Metadata
Running install for module 'XML::Diff'
Running make for T/TI/TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.47)
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/T/TI/TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.ta
+r.gz 

ok
CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.48)
XML-Diff-0.05/
XML-Diff-0.05/TODO
XML-Diff-0.05/Makefile.PL
XML-Diff-0.05/Changes
XML-Diff-0.05/MANIFEST
XML-Diff-0.05/t/
XML-Diff-0.05/t/xml/
XML-Diff-0.05/t/xml/test1.xml
XML-Diff-0.05/t/xml/test2.xml
XML-Diff-0.05/t/1.t
XML-Diff-0.05/Diff.pm
XML-Diff-0.05/README
XML-Diff-0.05/META.yml
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22)

  CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TI/TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for XML::Diff
cp Diff.pm blib/lib/XML/Diff.pm
Manifying blib/man3/XML::Diff.3pm
  TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" 

"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/1.t .. 1/38 setDocumentElement: ELEMENT node required at 

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML.pm l
+ine 

1074.
# Looks like you planned 38 tests but ran 4.
# Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 4.
t/1.t .. Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
Failed 34/38 subtests

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/1.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 4 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 255
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 38 tests but ran 4.
Files=1, Tests=4,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr  0.01 sys +  0.13 cusr 
+ 

0.02 csys =  0.21 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/1 test programs. 0/4 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, t
+ry:
  reports TIMM/XML-Diff-0.05.tar.gz
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

[download]

The place where it is erroring out:
$doc->_setDocumentElement($element); at 1074 in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML.pm
$doc is an object of XML::LibXML::Document (line 234) but I could not able to figure out where $doc->_setDocumentElement is implementated. I have checked all the dependencies of this module and they are all installed. Is it something else which I am missing?

It would be great if someone can help me.

Thanks in advance,
Prantik

In reply to Error installing XML::Diff by prantikd

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