Bug#661551: Please ignore Unicode BOM at start of file

[Axel Beckert]

Control: reassign -1 libxml-treepp-perl 0.39-1
Control: retitle -1 libxml-treepp-perl: Please ignore Unicode BOM at start of file
Control: affects -1 libxml-feedpp-perl

Hi,

Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> When trying to parse the feed at
> http://www.americastestkitchen.com/radio/rss/iTunesRSSFeed.xml
> FeedPP gives error:
> 
> Invalid string: [\xFEFF] before <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> at /usr/share/perl5/XML/FeedPP.pm line 553
[...]
> (Maybe this bug really belongs to libxml-treepp-perl,

Grepping through the source code of both modules shows that the error
message actually comes in XML::TreePP indeed:

/usr/share/perl5/XML/TreePP.pm:780:            $self->warn( "Invalid string: [$ahead] before <$match>" );

There are two new upstream versions of XML::TreePP available, but this
issue doesn't seem to be fixed upstream yet -- at least according to
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/KAWASAKI/XML-TreePP-0.41/Changes

Maybe using File::BOM could help there.

> I'm not sure, but both modules have the same author, so...)

... so it shouldn't be an issue that the upstream bug report currently
is still file against the wrong perl module. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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