I just want to say, "in my defense" so to speak, that I don't look after any servers and don't use any config files of this type, I was simply pointing out that the specific example documented in the XML::Simple POD was this kind of file, as far as I could see.

In fact the description of XML::Simple is "Easy API to maintain XML (esp config files)".

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