could not find ParserDetails.ini in .......

Smaug has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello fellow monks,

I have a script which reads it's configuration from an XML file. When running the script the following error is displayed:
"could not find ParserDetails.ini in C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/SAX"
As you would expect, it is correct, the file is not there... I have searched to find help but neither this nor this, have worked for me. Most solutions seem to involve reinstalling, but I've tried that and it did not work.

Is it possible to create this ini file manually?
If so, could somebody post the format so that I can do this?
Thanks in advance, yet again, for your help!!!

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Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in ....... by Animator (Hermit) on Feb 15, 2005 at 10:50 UTC
I remember that I had the same problem on my home machine... I think I fixed it by creating an emtpy ParserDetails.ini file, but I'm not sure... (I'm currently at work...) If I look on the contents of the ParserDetails.ini (located on my server), then I see this: `[XML::SAX::PurePerl] http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1` [download] I don't know wheter or not this would be a correct ParserDetails.ini file for you...	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: could not find ParserDetails.ini in ....... by dumpster_d (Initiate) on Feb 23, 2005 at 02:39 UTC
Try doing: perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::SAX::Expat' That should place (non-pure-perl) parsers on the system. I was having the same problem and this fixed it for me.	[reply]
Re^3: could not find ParserDetails.ini in ....... by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2014 at 14:48 UTC
(Yes - still works in 2014)	[reply]
Re^3: could not find ParserDetails.ini in ....... by stevieb (Canon) on Nov 28, 2015 at 18:32 UTC
I found that this fix worked for some issues while running Nmap::Scanner as well. Posting this here for future searching...	[reply]
Re^3: could not find ParserDetails.ini in ....... by Anonymous Monk on Feb 18, 2015 at 16:07 UTC
This worked for me. thanks.	[reply]
Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in ....... by holli (Abbot) on Sep 02, 2005 at 10:12 UTC
A bit late, but Could not find ParserDetails.ini. holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: could not find ParserDetails.ini in ....... by nematoad (Initiate) on Nov 13, 2013 at 05:38 UTC
make an empty file called ParserDetails.ini and try again. perl will approve.	[reply]
Re: could not find ParserDetails.ini in ....... by rpcox (Initiate) on Nov 19, 2019 at 21:29 UTC
Outdated and I know I'm the last one to the party, but I ran into this error just today. For me ParserDetails.ini was present and chock full of details, however, the file mode was 640 and owner/group set to root. sudo chmod 644 /path_to/ParserDetails.ini and the warning stopped.	[reply]