in reply to read error in XML parsers, Windows XP Service only

Is it possible to show the code you are using? This sounds like it is either install error being as your program errors out on one specific Windows XP machine and not the others or it can be that the program that is giving you an error is flawed when you insert this code (maybe it is failing to call the module. But then again, one cannot be sure until what you're working with can be seen.


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Re^2: read error in XML parsers, Windows XP Service only
by soliplaya (Beadle) on Apr 20, 2008 at 19:24 UTC
    This is a very large program (5000 lines), but here are some snippets :
    #!/usr/bin/perl # CVS version : $Id: MiraLoader.pl,v 2.13 2008-02-03 15:11:46 efs Exp +$ use strict "vars"; use warnings; use FindBin qw($Bin); use lib "$Bin/../lib"; use File::Basename; use File::Copy; use Getopt::Std; use Encode; use XML::Simple; #$XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER = 'XML::Parser'; #[...] log_msg(0,"Going to parse INI file."); $INITBL = parse_INI("$MYTOPDIR/$MYINI",$SVCNAME); # $INITBL = ref + to Parameter table # parse_INI dies in case of errors, so if we're here, it's ok log_msg(0,"INI file parsed."); #[...] sub parse_INI { ############# my $IniFile = shift; # INI file name my $MYTAG = shift; # tag of "my" section my $IniRef; # the returned ref. my ($MIRA,$MYSECT); my $SectRef; my ($Val,@SplitVals); my $Msg = "Required directory not found or insufficient permissions : +"; my $MsgSect = "Required section missing in INI file :"; my $MsgFil = "Required directory/file not found or insufficient permis +sions"; my $MsgParam = "Required parameter missing in INI file :"; my $MsgParam2 = "Parameter in INI file has invalid value :"; my $fh; log_msg(0,"==>parse_INI()") if $Debug>1; unless (open($fh,'<',$IniFile)) { die_msg(0,"** Cannot open INI file \"$IniFile\" **") if $Debug +; } # Create an XML::Simple object with default parameters, my $XMLOBJ = new XML::Simple( keeproot => 1, forcearray => 0, # keyattr => 'Id', forcecontent => 1, contentkey => 'Value', ); $IniRef = $XMLOBJ->XMLin($fh); # *** close $fh; #[...] }

    As far as I can tell, it crashes with the error on the line marked "***" above. But I have 3 other programs, which do just about the same as above, and which do not experience this problem.

    With the line
    $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER = 'XML::Parser';
    commented out as above, the message is :
    read error at C:/Perl/lib/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 469
    With the same line set to :
    $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER = 'XML::SAX::ExpatXS';
    then the error message is :
    read error at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/SAX/ExpatXS.pm line 163

    I thus assume it must be some cause common to both parsers, and external to the parser itself. But why then do other programs running on the same XP machine and using exactly the same logic and parser, parsing the same XML file, not crash, and why does this one crash only when run as a service, and not in a console (running under the same non LocalSystem user-id in both console and service mode?