libxml-perl-0.07 and perl5.8.0 - fails test

[dj]

Hi,
Does anyone know if libxml-perl works with perl 5.8.0. I read something in
the xml-perl archive that suggested that there may be a problem with this,
but it was a rather old message. I am trying to get XML::Grove to work, but
of course it needs libxml-perl. Has anyone come accross this problem?

during the make test, libxml-perl fails at t/stream (test 11) every other
test is fine except this one.

Any help would be greately appreciated,

Drew J

 

[James Willmore]

during the make test, libxml-perl fails at t/stream (test 11) every
other test is fine except this one.

Does it say why it fails? Have you read the README for the module?

--
Jim

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[dj]

Hi,

Yes, I have read the README: not much there.

The fail does not give any specific information about why the failure
occurs, except that it is test 11 of 11 in t/stream.t
I tried running 'perl t/stream.t' and it gave even less info: Not OK!
I don't have the source code in front of me at the moment, but to be honest
I didnt really make much sense of it
The mailing archive I read suggested that it _may_ have been something to
with Unicode compatability, but as I mentioned, I only found a single
reference to this.

I have been wrestling with this for a while: all I really want to do is put
the text content from an xml file into an easily readable data structure.
Am I going about this the wrong way?


regards,

Drew

 

[James Willmore]

The fail does not give any specific information about why the
failure occurs, except that it is test 11 of 11 in t/stream.t
I tried running 'perl t/stream.t' and it gave even less info: Not
OK! I don't have the source code in front of me at the moment, but
to be honest I didnt really make much sense of it
The mailing archive I read suggested that it _may_ have been
something to with Unicode compatability, but as I mentioned, I only
found a single reference to this.

I have been wrestling with this for a while: all I really want to
do is put the text content from an xml file into an easily readable
data structure. Am I going about this the wrong way?

Are you building using CPAN or by hand? Try it by hand (perl
Makefile.PL;make;make test;make install). This may shed _some_ light
on what's going on.

If you've done this already, you could email the author.

HTH

--
Jim

Copyright notice: all code written by the author in this post is
released under the GPL. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
for more information.

a fortune quote ...
The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one
<of them is a match. -- Will Rogers

 

[dj]

Yep, was doing by hand.
No light

I don't have time to muck around with, so have moved on to using
XML::LibXSLT to extract the bits i want. Not terribly efficient I am sure,
but when you are pressed for time, it is amazing what you can put up with

Thanks for trying.

Drew