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This is an interesting regex semi-solution: Shallow XML parsing using XML::Parser::REX which is regex-based.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
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