Ooops, submitted too early. It should be like this:
Situation: a machine like this:
my $machine = Pipeline(
...,
'>' . $out_name
);
where $out_name is the name of the output file.
XML::SAX::Machine will put the output in the file, as requested.
But! The file is never closed, so if one wants to read the file later,
before Perl closes the file on exit, one have to flush open files, for
example with this kludge:
``;
The reason for the bug is (according to my investigations):
The normal usage of XML::SAX::Writer would be to pass in a filename.
XML::SAX::Writer will then open the file and also close it, in
XML::SAX::Writer::FileConsumer::finalize() which is called by
XML::SAX::Writer::XML::end_document.
But on line 792-798 in XML/SAX/Machine.pm, the file is opened manually,
and instead the file handle is passed to XML::SAX::Writer.
XML::SAX::Writer will never close the file if it gets a file handle,
which I think is right. In this case, XML::SAX::Machine should close the
file, which it never does.
So I think the bug should be fixed by either doing:
1. Pass the file name directly to XML::SAX::Writer and let it close the
file.
or
2. Ensure XML::SAX::Machine closes all files it has opened.
RT for rt.cpan.org