[XML-SIG] Empty dom class returned after parsing a valid XML file

[luc willems]

	Hello All ,

i have a problem with pyexpat and sax2 parser of the pyxml-0.8.2 packages.

I developed a small script that manipulates some xmls files on my development 
system (SuSE 8.1 , python 2.2.1 , pyxml 0.8.2 ) . This script together with 
the test XML files worked fine.

But when i moved the script to a Soloris 2.8 with custom build python 2.2.2 
and pyxml 0.8.2 it doesn't work any more . to be precise ,
following code returns a 'None' instead of a DOM class for the "dom" variable

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#open input file or use STDIN
if opts.has_key("--in-file"):
   try:
      fi = open(opts["--in-file"], 'rb')
   except:
     # print help information and exit:
     (exctype,value,trace)=sys.exc_info()
     showerror("FILE",value)
     sys.exit(2)
else:
   fi = sys.stdin

# Try parsing the input file , exit if problems arise
try:
  reader = PyExpat.Reader()
  dom = reader.fromStream(fi)    <---- returns 'None' on solaris !!!!
except:
 (exctype,value,trace)=sys.exc_info()
 showerror("XML",value)
 sys.exit(3)

if dom == None:
   showerror("EXPAT","No DOM class after parsing")
   sys.exit(3)
- xml file ------------------------------------
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<config>
<master port='12345' host='master.ikke.be'/>
<node type='slave'/>
<snmp secret='you-dont-know-it' host='mieke.be'/>
<statepath>/tmp</statepath>
<test><![CDATA[function matchwo(a,b)]]></test>
</config>
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When i run this code with a simple xml  file , it returns 'None' on solaris 
and a parsed DOM on my linux system. I tried using the PyExpat and Sax2 
parsed , both give the same problem.

Note : python and pyxml are both compiled with gcc-3.2.2 on solaris


	luc