update: I can see now (through ESP) how you might be confused. The text methods APPENDS (appends) values to an element. The only way to get at the XML::Mini::Node's is to cheat and look at an XML::Mini::Element's _children attribute.

Which is what I have been doing for the re-ordering and attribute changing. I just haven't figured out the appropriate wizardry to do remove an element or add an element.

Also, I'm not clear if the code you posted is how you want XML::Mini to work or if that's the _children workaround I'm looking for ...

A.