Hi,

  A recent update to perl-XML-Simple on SL5 has broken the handling of 
"&" in XML code.

This example:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my %f;
$f{'foo'}='&';

print XMLout(\%f);
print Dumper(XMLin(XMLout(\%f)));
snip---

used to produce:

snip---
<opt foo="&amp;" />
$VAR1 = {
           'foo' => '&'
         };
snip---

Now it produces:

snip---
<opt foo="&amp;" />
could not find ParserDetails.ini in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX
$VAR1 = {
           'foo' => '&amp;'
         };
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This is a problem for our perl handling of our automount maps (which 
often have "&" at the ends)

Has this been reported do people know of the bug? Or have I made an 
error somewhere, there's nothing obvious in the man page.

yours
Faye

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