#! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use feature qw{ say }; use XML::Simple; my $xml = XMLin('file.xml', ForceArray => 1, KeyAttr => [], ForceContent => 1); my %h; @h{ map values %{ $_->[0] }, grep 'ARRAY' eq ref, map values %{ $_->[0] }, values %{ $xml->{tags}[0] } } = (); say for keys %h;