I'm having trouble calling the superclass in myHandler. If I comment out my start_element() Things work as I would expect, (i.e. the elements are pushed into the stack) but when I implement my start_element() I don't seem to be calling the superclass method (i.e. $self->{Names} is empty)

From the XML::Handler::Subs docs:
If the subclass implements `start_document()', `end_document()', `start_element()', and `end_element()', be sure to use `SUPER::' to call the the superclass methods also.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::Parser::PerlSAX;
use XML::Handler::Subs;

my $parser = XML::Parser::PerlSAX->new(Handler => myHandler->new() );
$parser->parse(Source => {String => '<foo><bar>f*** it</bar></foo>'});

package myHandler;
use base('XML::Handler::Subs');

sub new {
    my $type = shift;
    my $self = {@_};
    return bless($self,$type);
}

sub start_element {
    my ($self,$properties) = @_;
    $self->SUPER::start_element();
    print "started ",$properties->{Name},"\n";
}
    
sub characters {
    my ($self, $properties) = @_;
    my $data = $properties->{Data};
    print "$data\n";
    print "These are the Names; ",@{$self->{Names}},"\n";
}
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