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Perl: Missing ParserDetails.ini

By Eric Downing. Filed in Perl, Scripting  |  
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I have some scripts that were giving me the following message:
could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/XML/SAX

The way that I worked around this message was to create the ParserDetails.ini file in the /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/XML/SAX directory with the following contents.

[XML::SAX::PurePerl]
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces = 1

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2 comments to “Perl: Missing ParserDetails.ini”

  1. Comment by Max Polk:
    Monday, May 2nd 2011 at 5:56 pm

    The other way is to touch the file to create it, then ask XML::SAX to add a parser to the file itself:

    $ touch /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini
    $ perl -MXML::SAX -e “XML::SAX->add_parser(‘XML::SAX::PurePerl’)->save_parsers()”

    This comes from notes in the “WRITING A SAX2 PARSER” section of the perldoc XML::SAX.

  2. Comment by ecdown:
    Monday, May 2nd 2011 at 7:05 pm

    Thanks Max!

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