@choroba: I really wish I could put the actual file here but it's quite big and has different data each time as it is generated at runtime. :-( @tangent: I tried your suggestion and it gave following result: I added: 
print Dumper ( $xst->{cmts}{STBDSG}{dsg} );
print Dumper ( $xst->{cmts}{STBDSG}{dsg}[0] );
print Dumper ( $xst->{cmts}{STBDSG}{dsg}[0]{tag1} );

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Which gave: 
$VAR1 = [
          {}
        ];
$VAR1 = {};
$VAR1 = undef;

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So I think problem is what choroba stated earlier that $xst->{cmts}{STBDSG}{dsg}[0]{tag1} is getting undef :-( I think I have to dig deep in this part of my code: 
my $xst;        

if((not defined $xml) or ($xml =~ m/read\stimeout/i)){
    &printXMLErr('request timed out');
} else {
    my $xs = XML::Simple->new();
    $xst = eval { $xs->XMLin($xml,KeyAttr=>1) };
    &printXMLErr($@) if($@);
}

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It seems that answer to why $xst->{cmts}{STBDSG}{dsg}[0]{tag1} is getting undef is known to either KeyAttr or forcearray (or both). I am trying to find it out from them :-)

In reply to Re^6: Problem in reading parsed xml using XML::Simple by Perl300
in thread Problem in reading parsed xml using XML::Simple by Perl300

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