'standard distribution' means comes with 5.18; does not require installing from CPAN.
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For the Perl 5 project, the "standard distribution" is the "Core" distribution. As toolic pointed out, the Core does not include any XML modules.
However, there are also packages that may include additional modules beyond what is in the Core. For example, the Perl package for Debian Linux includes modules needed by the Debian Linux distribution. For MS Windows, StrawberryPerl.com and Active Perl both have whatever extra modules their respective package maintainers thought would be useful to include. Exactly which extra modules may change from one package release to the next.
Why do you want to not to install modules from CPAN?
Update: Changed domain of StrawberryPerl (it's .com not .org).
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company policy (I know, I know)
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The Perl distribution (see http://www.cpan.org/ports/) that you are using might include XML::Simple with their version of Perl 5.18, but I don't think 5.18 has any XML modules in its core module list.
Maybe there's a better of way of checking, but I just looked at the documentation on http://www.perl.org/ for the list of core modules beginning with the letter X for Perl versions 5.18.0, 5.18.1 and 5.18.2.
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