Possible bug in XML::SAX causing new_from_xml() to croak

[Joshua Ferraro]

Hi all,

OK ... I think I've narrowed down the problem to a bug in XML::SAX
when dealing with combining characters, but I'd like some feedback
before I go and post this bug ... I'm new to SAX and XML parsing/
encoding issues in general ...

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.

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?

Cheers,

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use XML::SAX;
my $parser = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->parser(
Handler => MySAXHandler->new
);
binmode STDOUT, ":utf8";
print "\x{65}\x{301}\n"; 
$parser->parse_string("<xml>\xEF\xBB\xBF\x{65}\x{301}</xml>");

package MySAXHandler;

use base qw(XML::SAX::Base);
sub start_document {
 my ($self, $doc) = @_;
 # process document start event
}

sub start_element {
 my ($self, $el) = @_;
 # process element start event
}