Hello. I need to define a xml config file and read the parameters, attributes, values and assign them to a hash. I understood the part of XML::Simple and XMLin() to read the XML file, but I am having trouble in reading the elements based on attributes. 

<list>
        <value category="default">
                <parameter instance="0">nameoftheparameter</parameter>
                <value>1</value>
         </value>
         <value category="special">
               <parameter instance="0">nameofparameter1</parameter>
         </value>
</list>

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I want to access the "value" based on the attribute "category" and also in case I have multiple parameters with different "instances". Please help.

In reply to XML Parsing by vmallya

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