I'd really recommend upgrading your Perl to 5.8.x, Xerces relies heavily on Perl's Unicode support and it was pretty buggy in 5.6.
I know. I hesitate because I have a solid working installation with many modules.
I'll add a hints file for Windows - could you tell me what the output
of $^O (the operating system variable) is?
It just says 'MSWin32'.
For some reason, Xerces.C isn't compiled by the makefile. I had to compile it by hand.
This one I don't understand.
Nor do I. I seem to recall that it used to work. Perhaps it's due to problems with the uppercase C in "Xerces.C" I had before. Anyway, make just silently skips making "Xerces.C" and tries to link "Xerces.obj" which it can't find.
There's probably a linker flag that tells it where the library is located at runtime - if you find that out, I'll include it in the windows help file.
I'd just say: put "Xerces-c_2_3_0.dll" somewhere in your system path.
Exception handling seems particularly weak (tests fail mainly on exceptions). The message is always "Handling Unknown exception".
Hmmm... Not sure about this one - that message comes from my exception handler getting some exception that it can't deal with and killing Xerces. It seems that almost all the methods are failing - I'd be surprised if you could write an application that works.
Yes I can! As far as I see, at least XercesDOMParser and SAXParser work as they should. Parsing errors are reported correctly. Even schema validation works (to a certain extent - constraints are ignored, but maybe I haven't set the correct parameters).
Now I see the message is *not* always "Handling Unknown exception".
It's the exception objects that don't behave. I seems they are mostly created and returned OK, but the {code} and {msg} hash values contain just garbage (it seems they somehow don't get initialized, but reflect some random memory location). That's why most of the tests fail.
$e = XML::Xerces::DOMException->new(42,'test');
print "$e : $e->{code} : $e->{msg}";prints
"XML::Xerces::DOMException=HASH(0x1b90e2c) : 42 : " - is that OK?
Martin
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