I want to output a hash to xml. I'm using xml::simple, but the formatting is not quite what I would expect/desire". A dumper of the hash shows: 
$VAR1 = {
          'xfire' => {
                       'summary' => 1,
                       'config' => 1
                     }
        };

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My code will output: 
<qa_logs>
  <xfire config="1" summary="1" />
</qa_logs>

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What I want is: 
<qa_logs>
  <xfire>
    <config>1</config>
    <summary>1</summary>
  </xfire>
</qa_logs>

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Is there an easy way to do this? Do I need to build my hash differently? Thanks! (BTW: I also would like to append to a file rather than create a new one. I guess the best way to do this is to open the file to append, and then not specify OutputFile for XMLout). Code snippet: 
XMLout(\%qa_logs, OutputFile => "newfile.xml", RootName => 'qa_logs');

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In reply to Help with output formatting with xml::simple by JeremyL

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