package similar to XML::Simple

[Brian Quinlan]

Peter Hansen:

> I suspect it's still somewhat ahead of a lot of other
> "XML parsers" anyway, though clearly imperfect and arguably not yet 
> deserving of the label "XML parser".

Then they are not XML parsers either. I know that libxml passes the W3C XML
test suite: 
http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/

> I wonder whether this has been reported as a bug to Reportlab, 
> however. Maybe they simply didn't happen to have a test case that 
> covered that particular use of the parser... and they might be happy 
> to fix it.

The errors message "not a valid 8-bit XML character" suggests that there is
more at work here than a simple bug. 

Cheers,
Brian