use XML::Hash::LX;
    # Usage with XML::LibXML

    my $doc = XML::LibXML->new->parse_string($xml);
    my $xp  = XML::LibXML::XPathContext->new($doc);
    $xp->registerNs('rss', 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/');

    # then process xpath
    for ($xp->findnodes('//rss:item')) {
        # and convert to hash concrete nodes
        my $item = xml2hash($_);
        print Dumper+$item
    }