Bug#465198: libsoap-lite-perl: XML::Parser::Lite is totally broken

[Martín Ferrari]

Package: libsoap-lite-perl
Version: 0.70.04-2
Severity: important

XML::Parser::Lite is unable to parse anything, under perl 5.8.8. It
isn't even able to run the example from the manpage:

$ cat t.pl 
use XML::Parser::Lite;

$p1 = new XML::Parser::Lite;
$p1->setHandlers(
	Start => sub { shift; print "start: @_\n" },
	Char => sub { shift; print "char: @_\n" },
	End => sub { shift; print "end: @_\n" },
);
$p1->parse('<foo id="me">Hello World!</foo>');

$ perl t.pl 
junk 'foo id="me">Hello World!' before XML element

This is making XML::Parser::Lite::Tree fail, of course.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libsoap-lite-perl depends on:
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl      2.008-1       Perl module for creation and manip
ii  libcrypt-ssleay-perl       0.55-1        Support for https protocol in LWP
ii  libfcgi-perl               0.67-2        FastCGI Perl module
ii  libio-socket-ssl-perl      1.02-1        Perl module implementing object or
ii  libio-stringy-perl         2.110-3       Perl5 modules for IO from scalars 
ii  libmime-perl               5.425-1       Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii  libossp-uuid-perl          1.5.1-1.1     perl OSSP::UUID - OSSP uuid Perl B
ii  liburi-perl                1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  libwww-perl                5.808-1       WWW client/server library for Perl
ii  libxml-parser-perl         2.36-1        Perl module for parsing XML files
ii  perl                       5.8.8-12      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

libsoap-lite-perl recommends no packages.

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