This issue turned out to be a bad LD_LIBRARY_PATH :-(

I'm trying to use XML::Simple to parse a VERY simple xml file. The code works when used with perl debug (perl -d), but when run standalone, it fails with 

Can't locate object method "new" via package "XML::LibXML::SAX" at /cp
+an/5.8.8-2006.03/lib/XML/SAX/ParserFactory.pm line 43.

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As far as I can tell, I have the right modules etc, although a little old now. The code is very simple: 

#!/perl/5.8.8/bin/perl
use 5.8.8;  use strict; use warnings;
use lib qw( /cpan/5.8.8-2006.03/lib /cpan-extra/5.8.8-2006.07  );
use Data::Dumper;
use XML::Simple;

my $file = 'test.xml';
my $ref = XMLin($file) or die "Error reading build file ($file): $@";
print Dumper($ref);
# -end-

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Can anyone suggest my next course of action? I don't have to use Simple, but looking at how to parse something very simple: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<SA>
  <BUILD>
    <name>oracle</name>
    <version>2.4.7</version>
    <size>672K</size>
    <date>Thu Nov  8 13:07:18 EST 2007</date>
    <builder>me</builder>
    <os>RHEL 3</os>
    <server>labtest1</server>
    <command>d2tbuild.pl</command>
  </BUILD>
  <SVN>
    <url>https://svr/prod/Oracle/tags/REL_1.2.3_01</url>
    <rev>19858</rev>
  </SVN>
</SA>

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XML::Parser etc. seeams far to complex. I'm limited on what modules I can use. So most of the newer 'easy' type aren’t available to me.
-- David

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