ForceArray => 1 (in) (IMPORTANT!) This option should be set to ’1’ to force nested elements to be represented as arrays even when there is only one. Eg, with ForceArray enabled, this XML: value would parse to this: { ’name’ => [ ’value ] } instead of this (the default): { ’name’ => ’value } This option is especially useful if the data structure is likely to be written back out as XML and the default behaviour of rolling single nested elements up into attributes is not desirable.