package MyDoc; @ISA = qw(XML::LibXML::Document); my %instance_hashes; sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = $class->SUPER::new('1.0', 'UTF8'); my @listeners = (); # initialize private hash data $instance_hashes{$self} = {}; $self->listener(\@listeners); bless $self, $class; } # accessor / mutator sub listener { my $self = shift; if (@_) { $instance_hashes{$self}{Listeners} = shift; } return $instance_hashes{$self}{Listeners}; }