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+# Before `make install' is performed this script should be runnable
+# with `make test'. After `make install' it should work as `perl
+# DOMConfig.t'
+
+######################### Begin module loading
+
+# use blib;
+use Test::More tests => 20;
+
+BEGIN{use_ok('XML::Xerces')};
+
+use lib 't';
+use TestUtils qw($PERSONAL_FILE_NAME);
+use vars qw($error);
+use strict;
+
+######################### Begin Test
+
+my $document = q[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<contributors>
+  <person Role="manager">
+    <name>Mike Pogue</name>
+    <email>mpogue@us.ibm.com</email>
+  </person>
+  <person Role="developer">
+    <name>Tom Watson</name>
+    <email>rtwatson@us.ibm.com</email>
+  </person>
+  <person Role="tech writer">
+    <name>Susan Hardenbrook</name>
+    <email>susanhar@us.ibm.com</email>
+  </person>
+</contributors>];
+
+my $impl = XML::Xerces::DOMImplementationRegistry::getDOMImplementation('LS');
+my $DOM = $impl->createLSParser($XML::Xerces::DOMImplementationLS::MODE_SYNCHRONOUS,'');
+my $conf = $DOM->getDomConfig();
+isa_ok($conf, 'XML::Xerces::DOMConfiguration');
+
+my @param_names = ($XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMErrorHandler,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMSchemaType,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMSchemaLocation,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMCanonicalForm,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMCDATASections,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMComments,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMDatatypeNormalization,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMWRTDiscardDefaultContent,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMEntities,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMInfoset,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMNamespaces,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMNamespaceDeclarations,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMNormalizeCharacters,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMSplitCDATASections,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMValidate,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMValidateIfSchema,
+		   $XML::Xerces::XMLUni::fgDOMElementContentWhitespace);
+
+my @accepted_param_names = $conf->getParameterNames();
+ok(scalar @accepted_param_names, "got parameter name list");
+
+my %param_names = map {$_=>1} @param_names;
+foreach my $param_name (@param_names) {
+  ok(exists $param_names{$param_name}, "can set $param_name");
+}
+my $handler = XML::Xerces::PerlErrorHandler->new();