use XML::Simple;
use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = XMLin(\*DATA);
print Dumper $xml;

__DATA__
<documents>
   <document>
      <stayonhost>1</stayonhost>
      <staybelow>1</staybelow>
      <maxdepth>2</maxdepth>
      <name>Swedish Foo</name>
      <home_url>http://www.foo.se/bar/</home_url>
      <category>International</category>
   </document>
   <document>
      <stayonhost>0</stayonhost>
      <staybelow>0</staybelow>
      <maxdepth>3</maxdepth>
      <name>Swedish Bar</name>
      <home_url>http://www.bar.se/baz/</home_url>
      <category>National</category>
   </document>
</documents>