Greetings, eventhough your code was a good starting point from which I was able to parse NVD xml file. The code as is did not work. it crashed as it was trying to deal with $e->{desc}->{descript} at some entry it was a hash and at some other points it was an array. When it was an array, you code did not work. At any rate, thank you very much. it would really be appreciated if shared code is a working code. if I am missing something, please let me know as I would like to learn.