perl 5.8.8 on redhat linux

expat 2.0.1 installed

trying to install XML::Parser 2.41 I get the following errors 

[tauser02@gfmwsp11lds XML-Parser-2.41]$ make test
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/tauser02/XML-Parser-2.41/Expat'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tauser02/XML-Parser-2.41/Expat'
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_h
+arness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/astress.........ok                                                  
+       
t/cdata...........ok                                                  
+       
t/decl............ok 1/30                                             
+       
syntax error at line 14, column 3, byte 214:
%ext;

<![%bar;[
==^
<!ATTLIST bar xyz (a|b|c) 'b'>
]]>

error in processing external entity reference at line 21, column 3, by
+te 3161:
   <!ELEMENT bar ANY>
   <!ATTLIST bar big CDATA 'This is a large string value to test wheth
+er the declaration parser still works when the entity or attribute de
+fault value may be broken into multiple calls to the default handler.
+ 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567
+890123456789 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
+678901234567890123456789 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
+456789012345678901234567890123456789 01234567890123456789012345678901
+234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 01234567890123456789
+012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 01234567
+890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456
+789 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
+567890123456789 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
+345678901234567890123456789 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890
+123456789012345678901234567890123456789 01234567890123456789012345678
+901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 01234567890123456
+789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 01234
+567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
+456789 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901
+234567890123456789 '>
  ]>
==^
<foo/>
 at /home/tauser02/XML-Parser-2.41/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187
t/decl............dubious                                             
+       
        Test returned status 9 (wstat 2304, 0x900)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-30
        Failed 29/30 tests, 3.33% okay
t/defaulted.......ok                                                  
+       
t/encoding........ok                                                  
+       
t/external_ent....ok                                                  
+       
t/file............ok                                                  
+       
t/finish..........ok                                                  
+       
t/namespaces......ok                                                  
+       
t/parament........NOK 2Confused test output: test 3 answered after tes
+t 6    
t/parament........NOK 4Confused test output: test 4 answered after tes
+t 7    
Confused test output: test 5 answered after test 8
Confused test output: test 6 answered after test 9
Confused test output: test 7 answered after test 10

error in processing external entity reference at line 2, column 32, by
+te 76:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "t/foo.dtd">
===============================^
<foo>Happy, happy
<bar>&joy;, &joy;</bar>
 at /home/tauser02/XML-Parser-2.41/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187
t/parament........dubious                                             
+       
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-6, 8, 12
        Failed 7/12 tests, 41.67% okay
t/partial.........ok                                                  
+       
t/skip............ok                                                  
+       
t/stream..........ok                                                  
+       
t/styles..........ok                                                  
+       
Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/decl.t        9  2304    30   58 193.33%  2-30
t/parament.t  255 65280    12    8  66.67%  2-6 8 12
Failed 2/14 test scripts, 85.71% okay. 36/130 subtests failed, 72.31% 
+okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255

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