in reply to Nested hashes, non-unique names

1. Please see Simpler than XML::Simple for reasons why I don't think you should be using XML::Simple.

2. You do not want to use separate variables like that, you want to use an array! Please see Why it's stupid to `use a variable as a variable name'.

Jenda
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