"dom::parse invalid" crashes the interpreter

Binary package hint: tclxml

Parsing any non-well-formed document seems to crash the interpreter:

$ tclsh
% package require xml
3.2
% dom::parse anything
Segmentation fault

I would expect it to report an error instead.

Additional informaiton:
$ apt-cache policy tclxml | grep Inst
  Installed: 3.2-1
$ apt-cache policy libxml2 | grep Inst
  Installed: 2.7.7.dfsg-4ubuntu0.1
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
$ uname -m
x86_64

Backtrace:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff5f4a749 in xmlTextReaderStructuredError (ctxt=0x0, error=0x6ed2f8)
    at ../../xmlreader.c:4670
4670 xmlTextReaderPtr reader = (xmlTextReaderPtr) ctx->_private;
(gdb) bt
#0 0x00007ffff5f4a749 in xmlTextReaderStructuredError (ctxt=0x0,
    error=0x6ed2f8) at ../../xmlreader.c:4670
#1 0x00007ffff5e4398f in __xmlRaiseError (
    schannel=0x7ffff5f4a72d <xmlTextReaderStructuredError>,
    channel=0x7ffff5e42264 <xmlGenericErrorDefaultFunc>, data=0x0,
    ctx=0x6ed0a0, nod=0x0, domain=1, code=4, level=XML_ERR_FATAL, file=0x0,
    line=1, str1=0x0, str2=0x0, str3=0x0, int1=0, col=1,
    msg=0x7ffff5f82d4f "Document is empty\n") at ../../error.c:614
#2 0x00007ffff5e49a62 in xmlFatalErr (ctxt=0x6ed0a0,
    error=XML_ERR_DOCUMENT_EMPTY, info=0x0) at ../../parser.c:469
#3 0x00007ffff5e673e9 in xmlParseTryOrFinish (ctxt=0x6ed0a0, terminate=0)
    at ../../parser.c:10941
#4 0x00007ffff5e69d21 in xmlParseChunk__internal_alias (ctxt=0x6ed0a0,
    chunk=0x6aab10 "anything", size=8, terminate=0) at ../../parser.c:11739
#5 0x00007ffff5f43abf in xmlTextReaderPushData (reader=0x6ead00)
    at ../../xmlreader.c:861
#6 0x00007ffff5f44778 in xmlTextReaderRead__internal_alias (reader=0x6ead00)
    at ../../xmlreader.c:1280
#7 0x00007ffff61dc817 in ?? () from /usr/lib/Tclxml3.2/libTclxml3.2.so
#8 0x00007ffff61d43c1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/Tclxml3.2/libTclxml3.2.so
#9 0x00007ffff61d764f in ?? () from /usr/lib/Tclxml3.2/libTclxml3.2.so
#10 0x00007ffff7b40169 in TclEvalObjvInternal () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#11 0x00007ffff7b6813e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#12 0x00007ffff7b66231 in TclCompEvalObj () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#13 0x00007ffff7b97977 in TclObjInterpProc () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#14 0x00007ffff7b40169 in TclEvalObjvInternal () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#15 0x00007ffff7b40e8c in Tcl_EvalEx () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#16 0x00007ffff7b411c9 in Tcl_EvalObjEx () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#17 0x00007ffff7b45ed3 in Tcl_EvalObjCmd () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#18 0x00007ffff7b40169 in TclEvalObjvInternal () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#19 0x00007ffff7b6813e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#20 0x00007ffff7b66231 in TclCompEvalObj () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#21 0x00007ffff7b97977 in TclObjInterpProc () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#22 0x00007ffff7b40169 in TclEvalObjvInternal () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#23 0x00007ffff7b6813e in ?? () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#24 0x00007ffff7b66231 in TclCompEvalObj () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#25 0x00007ffff7b4123e in Tcl_EvalObjEx () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#26 0x00007ffff7b736fe in Tcl_RecordAndEvalObj () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#27 0x00007ffff7b896e8 in Tcl_Main () from /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.0
#28 0x00000000004008f0 in main ()