> > Ken Wolcott wrote: > > > > > I suppose it is in bad taste to reply to one's own posting, but I have > > > an update. > > > > > > After reading some in the O'Reilly Perl & XML book, reading the email > > > archives of this mailing list, several FAQS that some people mentioned > > > from the mailing list archives and another reading of the CPAN man > > > page for XML::Simple, I decided to try the OO interface, adding > > > "ForceArray => 1, KeepRoot => 1, KeyAttr => 1" to my call to the > > > parser. It seems now that the formatting is nice and the closing tag > > > is specified properly. So, getting patient, calm, cool and collected > > > rather than anxious solved part of the problem. Now the problem that > > > remains is the error/warning message in the subject line: "could not > > > find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX" > > > when using XML::Simple. What do I need to do to fix that? > > > > > > > Again, replying to my own post as nobody has reponded :-( > > > > I saw the "could not find ParserDetails.ini in > > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/XML/SAX" warning/error on a Fedora Core > > 2 system, but did not see the error on three Red Hat 9 systems. So I > > punted by not using the Fedora system. > > > > Ken > > > > See if I can actually get somewhere with this. XML::Simple is just a > wrapper around one of the lower level XML parsers. Essentially any > parser can be used. XML::DOM and XML::SAX are two examples, within these > examples they can/do wrap lower level C libs, such as expat[1] or > libxml[2]. Alternatively they may also provide a pure Perl > implementation which is likely slower, but still correct. Unless you > specifically request a specific parser XML::Simple will look for one > that is available and use it. In this case it appears that either you > specified or it came upon XML::SAX and attempts to use. Part of the > XML::SAX API allows for alternate parsers to be installed, including the > two mentioned above (expat and libxml), and also provides a PurePerl > version. The module also checks for a ParserDetails.ini to see if you > have written your own parser that you might prefer to load before the > others, or before the default pure Perl version is loaded. It appears > that the file should be installed at installation time or bootstrapped > by the Makefile.PL but this is kinda unclear to me. You can check the > top of the source for XML::SAX to see some pod like comments about that > file as well as the format it should take. > > So if I had to guess, the RH9 systems probably came installed with > either of the parsers (or both) and the FC system did not. It would be > pretty simple to have this problem if you didn't install all of the dev > libraries, or selected specific packages, etc. Alternatively a previous > version of XML::SAX may have installed the file and newer ones don't. It > appears at some point that a makefile touched the file in place, and > that may have been removed. I also suspect that it is working since the > PurePerl parser is installed with XML::SAX and it is falling back to it. > And the message you are seeing is just a warning. So you might check > for the various libraries, check their versions, check the versions of > XML::Simple/XML::SAX, and make sure that the Perl modules were installed > against the most recent versions of those libs. To quiet the warning if > you so desire it appears you can touch the ParserDetails.ini file in the > directory that XML::SAX is installed. > > Take all of this with as large of a grain of salt as you wish, I am no > XML expert.... > > http://danconia.org > > [1] http://expat.sourceforge.net/ > [2] http://www.xmlsoft.org/ >
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