Bug #45699 for HTML-Tidy-libXML: problematic results from attempting to use HTML::Tidy::libXML

Several problems when trying to use HTML::Tidy::libXML installed from ActiveState 5.8x under XP. 1. No mention in pod of what $encoding should be. $ grep -C1 "\$encoding" HTML-Tidy-libXML.txt my $tidy = HTML::Tidy::libXML->new(); my $xml = $tidy->clean($html, $encoding); # clean enough as xml my $xhtml = $tidy->clean($html, $encoding, 1); # clean enough for browsers -- html2dom my $dom = $tidy->html2dom($string, $encoding); -- html2xml my $xml = $tidy->html2xml($html, $encoding, $level) -- my $dom = $tidy->html2dom($html, $encoding); my $xml = $tidy->dom2xml($dom, $level); 2. running test code results in windows pop-up saying: "The procedure entry point for Perl_sv_2iv_flags could not be located in the dynamic link library perl58.dll" 3. experimenting with code (obvious details omitted) below results in above, followed by: my $tidy = HTML::Tidy::libXML->new(); my $xhmtl = $tidy->clean($text,undef,1); print $xhmtl; exit; C:\>test3 Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.dll' for module XML::LibXML: load_file:The specified procedure could not be found a t C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230. at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/LibXML.pm line 116 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/LibXML.pm line 116. Compilation failed in require at C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/Tidy/libXML.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/Tidy/libXML.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at C:\Documents and Settings\hsmyers\Desktop\backlink\test\test3.pl line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Documents and Settings\hsmyers\Desktop\backlink\test\test3.pl line 9 (#1) (F) The module you tried to load failed to load a dynamic extension. This may either mean that you upgraded your version of perl to one that is incompatible with your old dynamic extensions (which is known to happen between major versions of perl), or (more likely) that your dynamic extension was built against an older version of the library that is installed on your system. You may need to rebuild your old dynamic extensions. Uncaught exception from user code: Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.dll' for module XML::LibXML: load_file:The specified procedure could not be found at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230. at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/LibXML.pm line 116 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/site/lib/XML/LibXML.pm line 116. Compilation failed in require at C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/Tidy/libXML.pm line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/Perl/site/lib/HTML/Tidy/libXML.pm line 8. Compilation failed in require at C:\Documents and Settings\hsmyers\Desktop\backlink\test\test3.pl line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Documents and Settings\hsmyers\Desktop\backlink\test\test3.pl line 9. at C:\Documents and Settings\hsmyers\Desktop\backlink\test\test3.pl line 9 --hsm