This function looks for a file in the path list @XML::Parser::Expat::Encoding_Path, that matches the lower-cased name with a '.enc' extension. The first one it finds, it loads.

The respective piece of code that populates @Encoding_Path looks like

if ($have_File_Spec) {
  @Encoding_Path = (grep(-d $_,
                         map(File::Spec->catdir($_, qw(XML Parser Enco
+dings)),
                             @INC)),
                    File::Spec->curdir);
}
else {
  @Encoding_Path = (grep(-d $_, map($_ . '/XML/Parser/Encodings', @INC
+)), '.');
}
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so it should work if you put the file in "the current directory", or in one of the @INC dirs with /XML/Parser/Encodings appended. If you try '.', note that if this a CGI script, the current directory may not be what you think it is... (in case of doubt, chdir()).

Alternatively, I think you can explicitly call XML::Parser::Expat::load_encoding(ENCODING) and specify an absolute path to the file as ENCODING.  From Expat.pm:

=item XML::Parser::Expat::load_encoding(ENCODING)

Load an external encoding. ENCODING is either the name of an encoding 
+or
the name of a file. The basename is converted to lowercase and a '.enc
+'
extension is appended unless there's one already there. Then, unless
it's an absolute pathname (i.e. begins with '/'), the first file by th
+at
name discovered in the @Encoding_Path path list is used.

(...) The only reason users should use this function is to
explicitly load an encoding not contained in the @Encoding_Path list.
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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I tried using another "lib" (to the current folder), but that didn't work either.

Guess I'll just have to contact the host, and see if they can suggest anything.

Thanks for the reply though :)

Cheers

Andy