Uncaught exception from user code:
 
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 2, column 10, byte 17 at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 185
        XML::Parser::parse('XML::Parser=HASH(0x803ab0)','*XML::Simple::XML_FILE') called at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/XML/Simple.pm line 334
        XML::Simple::build_tree_xml_parser('XML::Simple=HASH(0x8227a0)','foo.xml','foo.xml') called at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/XML/Simple.pm line 277
        XML::Simple::build_tree('XML::Simple=HASH(0x8227a0)','foo.xml','foo.xml') called at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/XML/Simple.pm line 220
        XML::Simple::XMLin('XML::Simple=HASH(0x8227a0)','foo.xml') called at ./655609.pl line 15

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use XML::Simple;

my $conf = 'out.xml';   # I made this up
my $xmlfile = new XML::Simple (
    Outputfile => $conf,
    ForceArray => 1,
    RootName=>'exec'
);
#my $xml = $xmlfile->XMLin($conf);
my $xml = $xmlfile->XMLin('foo.xml');