Hi,
It looks like you have the Dag repository enabled, and need to send this to 
their mailling list.  The perl-XML-Simple that we have is

perl-XML-Simple-2.14-4.fc6

https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge

Troy

Faye Gibbins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   A recent update to perl-XML-Simple on SL5 has broken the handling of
> "&" in XML code.
> 
> This example:
> 
> snip---
> #!/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;'
>          };
> snip---
> 
> 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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