a bug in perl-XML-SAX?

[Faye Gibbins]

Hi,

I believe there is a problem with the current version of perl-XML-SAX 
being shipped with SL5.

On an affected machine "&" is not being correctly mapped to "&", viz:

snip---
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sax $ perl -le 'use XML::Simple; use Data::Dumper; print 
Dumper(XMLin("<opt opt=\"&amp;\"></opt>"));'
$VAR1 = {
          'opt' => '&amp;'
        };

[EMAIL PROTECTED] sax $
snip---

Whereas what should happen (with a more up to date version of XML::SAX 
from CPAN) is:

snip---
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldap.sl5 $ perl -le 'use XML::Simple; use 
Data::Dumper; print Dumper(XMLin("<opt opt=\"&amp;\"></opt>"));'
$VAR1 = {
          'opt' => '&'
        };

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ldap.sl5 $
snip---

Yours
Faye

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