Index: trunk/ippScripts/scripts/mdc2list.pl
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--- trunk/ippScripts/scripts/mdc2list.pl	(revision 8115)
+++ trunk/ippScripts/scripts/mdc2list.pl	(revision 8715)
@@ -34,5 +34,6 @@
 my @input = <$inFile>;		# Contents of the metadata config file
 my $mdcParser = PS::IPP::Metadata::Config->new; # Parser for metadata config files
-my $md = $mdcParser->parse(join "", @input); # The parsed metadata
+my $md = $mdcParser->parse(join "", @input)
+        or die "unable to parse metadata config doc";
 my $hashes = mds2hashes($md);	# An array of hashes
 foreach my $pending (@$hashes) {