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Thanks Ahmad, But both files exist. I deleted the file (the copied one) from the directory and run my script, every thing was fine, then I make a copy of this file and just changed its name (at this point two files are now in the directory). When i run the script for the second time, for the original file it works, but for the copied one, I get the error. But if i repeat the above process it works for both files. For every new file that I add to the directory it does not work for the first time but when I delete the file run the script, then again move the file to the directory it works!!! so wired.
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Re^3: Couldn't create file parser context for file "somename.xml"
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 31, 2009 at 19:02 UTC

    I bet you do something silly like `ls` and you don't properly extract the line feeds.

    Place the following just before the code you posted: 

    use Cwd;
use Data::Dumper;
print("cwd = ", getcwd(), "\n");
print("files:\n", do {
    local $Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;
    Dumper(\@files);
});

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    What do you get?

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      Hello, After adding the code proposed I get the following: 
      $ perl parseXML.pl "D:\Perl-Implementaion\ParseXM
L\test"
cwd = /cygdrive/D/Perl-Implementaion/ParseXML
files:
$VAR1 = [
          "bb.xml",
          "bbCopy.xml"
        ];
bb.xml
className= org.argouml.uml.cognitive.critics.CrClassMustBeAbstract
methodName= predicate2(Object,Designer)
bbCopy.xml
Could not create file parser context for file "bbCopy.xml": No such fi
+le or dire
ctory at parseXML.pl line 37

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      You see both files are there. By the way I do not "ls". To get the files in a directory I have the following in the beginning of my script: 
      use XML::LibXML;

$ARGV[0] || die; 

$path=$ARGV[0];
 
# open the designated directory
opendir(DIR, $path);
@files = grep(/\.xml$/,readdir(DIR));

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      Thanks for helping me.
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        You're telling XML::Parser to open
        /cygdrive/D/Perl-Implementaion/ParseXML/bb.xml
        and
        /cygdrive/D/Perl-Implementaion/ParseXML/bbCopy.xml

        but the files you want to open are
        D:\Perl-Implementaion\ParseXML\test\bb.xml
        and
        D:\Perl-Implementaion\ParseXML\test\bbCopy.xml

        Notice the missing "test". Fix: 

        my @files =
    map "$path/$_",
    grep /\.xml\z/,
    readdir(DIR);

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