Hey Monks,

I'm using XML::Simple to slurp in, spit out xml for a project that's just in the prototype phase. I'm using the forcearray option as recommended, but I'm noticing something strange that I haven't been able to figure out by looking at the XML::Simple documentation (not saying it ain't in there, just that I can't seem to figure out where).

I'm starting with an xml document that looks like this:

<xml>
  <class instructor="young" subject="social studies" level="7" id="rm1
+02">
    <student id="1">
      <first_name>Francis</first_name>
      <last_name>Bustardo</last_name>
    </student>
    <student id="2">
      <first_name>Escarlet</first_name>
      <last_name>Testamente</last_name>
    </student>
    <student id="3">
      <first_name>Franco</first_name>
      <last_name>Coolamente</last_name>
    </student>
  </class>
</xml>
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And I'm using XMLin to slurp it in, passing the hashref to XMLout (calling with no options) and outputting the following xml as a result:

<opt>
  <class level="7" instructor="young" subject="social studies" name="r
+m102">
    <student name="1">
      <first_name>Francis</first_name>
      <last_name>Bustardo</last_name>
    </student>
    <student name="2">
      <first_name>Escarlet</first_name>
      <last_name>Testamente</last_name>
    </student>
    <student name="3">
      <first_name>Franco</first_name>
      <last_name>Coolamente</last_name>
    </student>
  </class>
</opt>
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So my questions are:
-why is XML::Simple changing my <xml> to <opt>?
-why is it changing <student id="number"> to <student name="number">?

Thanks for any advice,

AH

p.s. I'm pretty new to xml and it's rules... I've been looking at the hash created using Data::Dumper and see that the resultant data structure doesn't retain the "id" name... can anyone help me figure out how to save that?