Hi Community, Really hoping to get some perl-wisdom on this one, its my second day working on Perl today, and I'm just stuck with an issue that I can't seem to figure out.

Basically I have an XML

<root>
  <ref name="abc_sia_%version1.ref%">
    <func envname = "test01" objectdir = "/home/pv66" 
     base="default_771"/>
  </ref>
</root>
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I want to get the ref name's value, that is "abc_sia_%version1.ref%" as my hash key and the corresponding elements of the tag in a list. So I used Simple XML's function

my $xml = new XML::Simple;
my $data = $xml->XMLin("/home/pv66", ForceArray => 1, KeyAttr => { ref
+ => "name"});
print Dumper ($data);
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But this gives me

$VAR1 = {
         'ref' => 
{
 'abc_sia_%version1.ref' => 
{
 'func' => [
            {
             'envname' => 'test01',
             'objectdir' => '/home/pv66',
             'base' => 'default_771'
            }
           ]       
}                  
};
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And this extra level of hierarchy (after ref) is undesired. I've read at some places that XML::Simple is not the preferred module, and XMLLib should be used, but I couldn't find any resources that drew a parallel to the ForceArray attribute of the XML in method. The desired hash should be:

$VAR1 = {

 'abc_sia_%version1.ref' => 
{
 'func' => [
            {
             'envname' => 'test01',
             'objectdir' => '/home/pv66',
             'base' => 'default_771'
            }
           ]       
}                  
};
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Any help pertaining to this would be appreciated.

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