XML::Parser Error: invalid doc

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

All,

I'm having the stupidest problem in the world. I can't get XML::Twig to work. Really, it is XML::Parser, but via twig. Anyways, here is my xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<test>word</test>
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That's it.

Here is my script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use XML::Twig;

my $fileLocation = "test.xml";

open(SOURCE, "< $fileLocation") or die "Couldn't open $fileLocation fo
+r reading: $!\n";

my $twig = new XML::Twig;

$twig->parse($fileLocation);
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And here is my error:

syntax error at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.
+pm line 187
at ./test.pl line 14
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For the life of me, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've used twig in the past and never had this problem. I thought this might be a perl bug, but I've tried it on both my Mac and an Ubuntu box. No luck!

Love,
Eric

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Re: XML::Parser Error: invalid doc by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 22, 2009 at 06:09 UTC
"`test.xml`" is indeed invalid XML. You want `$twig->parsefile($fileLocation)` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: XML::Parser Error: invalid doc by graff (Chancellor) on Mar 22, 2009 at 14:34 UTC
To elaborate a bit on what ikegami said: you can either use "parsefile( $filename )", in which case you don't need to open the file yourself, or you can open an input file handle yourself, slurp its contents as a single string into a scalar variable, and use "parse( $xmlstring )". I know the XML::Twig manual is terribly long (18,537 words!), but the solution you were looking for turns up in the first few paragraphs...	[reply]
Re^2: XML::Parser Error: invalid doc by zericm (Novice) on Mar 22, 2009 at 21:53 UTC
Did someone say RTFM? Thanks nonetheless!	[reply]
Re: XML::Parser Error: invalid doc by mirod (Canon) on Mar 22, 2009 at 18:23 UTC
AIndeed, you should use `parsefile` instead of `parse` in this case. A shortcut is also to write directly `my $twig= XML::Twig->parse( $fileLocation)`: in that case XML::Twig figures out that the argument to `parse` is not XML, so it looks for a file by that name.	[reply] [d/l] [select]