use strict; use XML::Rules; my %conf_of; my $parser = XML::Rules->new( stripspaces => 7, rules => [ '_default' => 'content', 'Device' => sub { $conf_of{$_[1]->{Dev_Info}{dev_name}} = "$_[1]->{Dev_Info}{configuration},$_[1]->{Capacity}{cylinders}"; return; }, 'Dev_Info,Capacity' => 'no content', ], start_rules => [ 'Hyper,RAID-5_Device,Back_End,Mirror_Set,Front_End,Product,Label,Flags' => 'skip', ], ); $parser->parse(\*DATA); use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(\%conf_of); __DATA__ ...