I have written a few modules that use XML::Parser. I also want them to use utf8; so that my code will be unicode friendly (for at least one of these, it is necessary, as I it stores and retrieves translation tables). But for some reason one of my handlers for the xml parser seems to be giving the utf8 code issues:

Can't locate object method "IsSpace" via package "main" at C:/Perl/lib/utf8_heavy.pl line 30.

i traced it back to where it's getting invoked from my code, and it's the last line of my character handler:

  sub _parseChar
  {
    my( $parser,$string ) = @_;

    if( $state_stack[-1] =~ /dataType|label|op|sep/ )
    {
        $value .= $string;
    }
    else
    {
        csWarn( class=>csErrorClass('CODE_PARAMS'),severity=>csErrorSc
+ale('MODERATE'),
                message => 'illegal syntax in Resource File',
                debug => "illegal syntax: bare string '$string' out of
+ context")
        and return undef unless $string =~ /\s+/;   <=== here
    }
  }

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I am not sure why this is happening... any ideas?

In reply to XML::Parser and the utf8 Pragma by AidanLee

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