Hi all, Right ... I was using the PurePerl parser. As soon as I installed XML::SAX::Expat the combining characters problem went away.
Thanks! -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:57:34PM -0500, Edward Summers wrote: > On May 19, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Joshua Ferraro wrote: > >I've attached a small script that reproduces the same error we're > >getting in the new_from_xml() method. Try it out and see what > >it does for you. > > Works ok for me, at least it doesn't crash :-) > > >So ... Is there a workaround that we can use to fix the MARC::Record > >suite so that it won't crash when dealing with records that have > >combining characters ... shall I bug the maintainer? > > While harvesting OAI data in Perl I've routinely had the LibXML > parser fail. Do you happen to know what underlying parser you are > using? You can check by: > > use XML::SAX::ParserFactory; > $parser = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->new(); > print $parser; > > I've found XML::SAX::Expat to be much more reliable. > > //Ed
