#!/usr/bin/perl use XML::Simple; use Data::Dumper; $xml = new XML::Simple; $data = $xml->XMLin("news2Obama.txt"); open $fh_o, '>', 'new_output.xml' or die "can't open file: $!"; $fh_o = Dumper ($data); print $fh_o; close $fh_o or die "can't close file:$!";