Comment 9 for bug 878246

Could this be a 64 bit issue? It does NOT fail for me:

paul@stromboli ~ $ xmlstarlet fo < /dev/null
-:1.1: Document is empty

^
Start tag expected, '<' not found

^

paul@stromboli ~ $ apt-cache policy xmlstarlet
xmlstarlet:
  Installed: 1.2.1-1
  Candidate: 1.2.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.1-1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status