From bd65b9ed515959e67db9cb1b198526f9ac2dfca5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johann Rolschewski <rolschewski@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 13:41:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] XML parser should ignore PerlIO layers

---
 lib/MAB2/Parser/XML.pm | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/MAB2/Parser/XML.pm b/lib/MAB2/Parser/XML.pm
index 2413838..d00c6cb 100644
--- a/lib/MAB2/Parser/XML.pm
+++ b/lib/MAB2/Parser/XML.pm
@@ -60,12 +60,13 @@ sub new {
     # check for file or filehandle
     my $ishandle = eval { fileno($input); };
     if ( !$@ && defined $ishandle ) {
+        binmode $input; # drop all PerlIO layers, as required by libxml2
         my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new( IO => $input )
             or croak "cannot read from filehandle $input\n";
         $self->{filename}   = scalar $input;
         $self->{xml_reader} = $reader;
     }
-    elsif ( -e $input ) {
+    elsif ( defined $input && $input !~ /\n/ && -e $input ) {
         my $reader = XML::LibXML::Reader->new( location => $input )
             or croak "cannot read from file $input\n";
         $self->{filename}   = $input;