Ditto. Same problem, this time on perl 5.10.1 on CentOS
$ rpm -qi expat-devel
Name : expat-devel Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.95.8 Vendor: CentOS
Release : 8.3.el5_4.2 Build Date: Tue 08 Dec 2009 07:23:13 AM MST
Install Date: Tue 20 Apr 2010 01:26:13 PM MDT Build Host: builder16.centos.org
Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: expat-1.95.8-8.3.el5_4.2.src.rpm
Size : 376983 License: BSD
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 17 Dec 2009 06:32:05 PM MST, Key ID a8a447dce8562897
URL :
http://www.libexpat.org/
Summary : Libraries and include files to develop XML applications with expat.
Description :
The expat-devel package contains the libraries, include files and documentation
to develop XML applications with expat.
Looking at bug #54747 it seems this isn't an issue with XML::Parser itself, but rather a bug in
the underlying expat library.