Hi Nicky

I tried running your code on a Linux box and had no problem.

If I read it right, your failure occurs only after 55 failed
backtick evaluations?(!?)

It really does look like your XML::SAX::PurePerl installation
is broken.  Here's a simple script to test it:

  #!/usr/bin/perl

  package MyHandler;

    use XML::SAX::Base;

    @MyHandler::ISA = qw( XML::SAX::Base );

    sub start_element { print $_[1]-> {Name}, "\n"; }

  package main;

    use XML::SAX::PurePerl;

    my $handler = MyHandler-> new();
    my $parser = XML::SAX::PurePerl-> new(Handler => $handler);

    $parser-> parse_string('<hello><world/></hello>');

You mention that you have XML::Parser installed, but from
the looks of the output  you also have XML::SAX installed
so XML::Simple is using it by preference and is not using
XML::Parser (or expat) at all.

You could force XML::Simple to ignore SAX and use XML::Parser
by adding this line after 'use XML::Simple;':

  $XML::Simple::PRE­FERRED_PARSER = 'XML::Parser';

Alternatively, you could install XML::SAX::Expat.

I'd also recommend ssh over rsh :-)

Good luck

Grant

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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Nikola Janceski [mailto:nikola_janceski@[...].com]
>  Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 8:04 AM
>  To: Perl XML (E-mail)
>  Cc: 'grantm@cpan.org'
>  Subject: POSSIBLE BUG in XML::Simple
>  
>  
>  Hey folks,
>  	I think I finally resolved my issue with my "strange 
>  error" posts
>  from a few weeks ago. It has rotted my brains trying to 
>  breakdown the code
>  to it's simpliest form where the action still occurs. And I have
>  replicatable code now. I have CCed the author/copyrighter.
>  
>  I need someone to confirm if it's a bug on different OS platforms and
>  versions of rsh. You might want to look at this when you have 
>  a few minutes
>  to spare.
>  
>  The Error:
>  ----------
>  Can't locate object method "new" via package 
>  "XML::SAX::PurePerl" (perhaps
>  you forgot to load "XML::SAX::PurePerl"?) at
>  /somepath/perl-5.6.1-unix/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/XML/SAX/Pa
>  rserFactory.pm
>  line 37.
>  
>  [but I have expat installed correctly]
>  
>  Here are my specs:
>  ------------------
>  SunOS host1 5.6 Generic_105181-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
>  rsh is from OS distribution and according to the man pages is (14 July
>  1994).
>  Perl 5.6.1 with XML::Simple1.08_01, XML-Parser-2.31, 
>  expat-1.95.4 and other
>  modules not related to this.
>  
>  The code:
>  ---------
>  # your perl here
>  use XML::Simple;
>  
>  my $XML_FILE = "/u/njancesk/test.xml";
>  die "Can't read $XML_FILE\n" if !-r "$XML_FILE"; #check permissions
>  
>  while ($n++ < 55 ){ ## error on 55 or greater when rsh
>  `IAmNotACommand`; # some command that doesn't exist 
>  (originally was a typo)
>  # yeah I know I should be checking $! and $? (the work around)
>  }
>  
>  my $SHOW = XMLin("$XML_FILE", forcearray => 1 );
>  __END__
>  
>  
>  $XML_FILE contains:
>  -------------------
>  <opt>
>    <AAAA date="8/12/2002" show="1" name="V3.1.5" />
>    <BBBB date="8/12/2002" show="1" name="V3.1.5" />
>    <CCCC date="8/12/2002" show="1" name="V3.1.9" />
>  </opt>
>  
>  
>  Steps to replicate:
>  -------------------
>  1. run a command line rsh to the host you are on with the 
>  script path as the
>  command.
>  ie. /bin/rsh host1 /u/njancesk/pl.pl
>  2. see the error, if you didn't see the error try making the 
>  55 in the while
>  loop a bigger number.
>  
>  
>  Strange thing is this ONLY happens when you run the script via an rsh
>  command line. if the number is less than 55 the error doesn't 
>  occur. if it's
>  run on the command line without rsh on the same host, no error occurs.
>  
>  I don't know if it's a bug with the module, core perl, or 
>  rsh, but this is
>  by far the wackiest possible bug I have run into. I depleted 
>  20 hours trying
>  to fix this error in my script, which I found a work around.
>  
>  Thank you for your help and contributions!
>  
>  Nikola Janceski
>  
>  Thinking is easy, it's implementing ideas and putting 
>  thoughts to paper that
>  is difficult.
>  -- Nicky J. from da' Bronx
>  
>  
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