I am moving a Perl CGI script from one server (Perl 5.005 w/CGI.pm 2.46) to another (Perl 5.8.0 w/CGI.pm 2.94 -- latest) and am noticing some strange behavior with CGI::XMLForm (both servers have version 0.10 of that module) It starts out like this:

use CGI::XMLForm;
my $q = new CGI::XMLForm;
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Then various parameters from the HTTP POST are added, deleted, modified in $q by a subroutine. Back in "main" after the subroutine, when I dump out the parameters & values from $q I get output like this:

Name: /strega/header/id
Value: 519
Name: /strega/header/type
Value: P
Name: /strega/header/options
Value: exe_opt.dat
Name: /strega/header/file
Value: prod.xml.dat
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I know these will produce appropriately tagged & nested XML. But then when I try to convert it to XML like this: $finalXML = $q->toXML; ... when I print out $finalXML, the XML gets generated based on the original $q parameters and values, not the ones that have been cleaned up. And oddly enough it works on the old platform. I have tried cloning $q but run into a different problem. I have a feeling I am making a mistake related to handling of objects in perl. Can anyone help? Thanks.