Sorry tangent, but I don't have an option for it. The other part of code where fetching data is working as expected is where xml was like: 
<cmts>
    <name field_name="Name">cts01nsocmo</name>
    <object field_name="Nemos Object">888</object>
    <vendor field_name="Vendor">xyz</vendor>
</cmts>

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Which was converted as: 
$VAR1 = {
  'cmts' => {
    'name' => {
                'content' => 'cts01nsocmo',
                'field_name' => 'Name'
              },
    'object' => {
                  'content' => '888',
                  'field_name' => 'Nemos Object'
                },
    'vendor' => {
                  'content' => 'xyz',
                  'field_name' => 'Vendor'
                }

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So basically no array and 'content' was there. Where it is not working, xml is like: 
<cmts>
  <STBDSG>
      <dsg>
        <tag1>1</tag1>
        <tag2>caSystemId</tag2>
      </dsg>
      <dsg>
        <tag1>2</tag1>
        <tag2>gaSystemId</tag2>
      </dsg>
    </STBDSG>
</cmts>

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Which was converted as: 
'cmts' => {
        'STBDSG' => {
            'dsg' => [
                     {
                       'tag1' => '1',
                       'tag2' => 'caSystemId',
                     },
                     {
                       'tag1' => '2',
                       'tag2' => 'gaSystemId',
                     }
                     ]
                 },

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Update: 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^8: 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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