Hi Monks, I have a problem using XML simple. The xml file I get sometimes has a <status><state> tag, other times not. When it doesn't my code errors out with

Can't call method "status" on unblessed reference at
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Is is possible to XML Simple with xml files that may have missing tags? I'm tempted to just use a shell call to xsltproc which handles this sort of issue, but would like to keep it all perl if possible.

use XML::Simple;
use strict;

my $xml = new XML::Simple();
$data = $xml->XMLin("file.xml", ForceArray => [qw( node internal )],Ke
+yA    ttr=> [qw( status )],);
print Dumper($data);

my $status=$data->status->{'state'};
if ($status eq "active"){
   print "active"
}
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